Steno Kailash Chandra Vol-24 Dictation No. 474

Mr. Deputy Chairman, Sir, I am grateful to the hon'ble Members who participated in the Budget debate and lent general support to my Budget proposals. I am all the more grateful to the hon'ble Members who took a critical attitude on the Budget because I do realise we are faced with a complex and very difficult situation. There are no straight answers to many of the questions. There are no simple solutions. Therefore, I do realise that there would be alternative approaches to this situation and, therefore, when hon'ble Members made points which were not in conformity with the Budget, it is not as if they had no relevance at all or no validity at all. But I can assure the hon'ble Members that it is not just without any discussion whatsoever or detailed study whatsoever that I have formulated the Budget