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At the Kochi Refinery function, the prime minister presented the new projects as the Centre's gift to Kerala. It was his 'Atmanirbhar Bharat' agenda he was promoting.
The PM will arrive on February 14 and dedicate the central projects worth thousands of crores in the afternoon.
The Modi government is targeting record capital expenditure next fiscal to pull the economy out of the trough. Additional resources required for that are to be raised through divestment and monetisation.
Sitharaman said the government's Aatmanirbhar packages totalling Rs 27.1 lakh crore to deal with the COVID pandemic, accelerated the pace of structural reforms.
In content, vision, strategy and action this budget will have to bring at least the heft and vigour of the reforms-oriented presentation by Dr. Manmohan Singh in July, 1991.
The budget, economists and experts say, will be the starting point for picking up the pieces after the economic destruction caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Petrol now costs Rs 84.70 per litre in Delhi and diesel is priced at Rs 74.88, according to a price notification from oil marketing companies.
Petrol price on Thursday was hiked by 23 paise per litre and diesel by 26 paise a litre, according to a price notification from oil marketing companies.
How will this Rs 7,200-crore project directly benefit the common people? The project promises 24-hour access to a green fuel at affordable rates to both domestic and industrial consumers.
Details of the subsidy given by the government and handed over to the consumers would be collected separately.