Chennai: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will hold a press conference at 4 pm today. This is going to be her third press briefing in as many days.
This is the third tranche of the Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan economic package of Rs 20 lakh crore announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday night.
On Thursday (May 14) Nirmala Sitharaman announced the second tranche of measures related to Atmanirbhar Bharat. The second tranche of package laid focus on migrant workers, street vendors, small traders, small farmers.
The first tranche of the package, totalling about Rs 5.9 lakh crore, which was announced by Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday, was mainly focused on providing easy credit facilities to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and non-banking finance companies (NBFCs).