Here is a look at what all was promised by Union Minister Piyush Goyal and if it stands in the real world
Image: Getty Images All that the budget had for the environment
Although not at all promising, here is a list of announcements Piyush Goyal made towards bettering people’s health and the living world. Read the full story here
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India Environment Portal Resources :
The scheme is just 'lip service' for the Modi government says official even as Piyush Goyal allocates Rs 750 crore to it. 
Government announces setting up of a welfare development board for de-notified, nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes. 
What we really want is a fixed salary, even if it means less than Rs 10,000 a month, they say. 
A specific mention spanning over four minutes, and emphasis on livestock hints at the government’s admission of the impact of its anti-cattle trade campaign. 
The government’s 6,000 per year offer works out to Rs 3.30 a day, which can't even buy a cup of tea. 
Lots of hints dropped but no concrete proposal. 
Looking at the increasing demand of work, the big amount of Rs 60,000 crore might still not be able to put an end to the ongoing rural crises. 
Worker union lashes out against Interim Budget 2019 for being pro cows and rich, with only piecemeal for poor. 
Piyush Goyal’s budget speech ignored the vulnerable as it had nothing about the state-assured social pension for the elderly, widows and persons with disability. 
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