Budget 2017 identifies public service sector as the key driver of economy
Q. Budget 2017 has proposed _________ as the front office for issuing passports in far flung areas. - Published on 03 Feb 17a. Airport
b. Telegraph office
c. Post office
d. Railway Station
ANSWER: Post office
The Budget 2017 has identified the PSU sector as one of the key drivers of the economy.
FM Arun Jaitley announced following initiatives for the Public Service sector in the Annual Budget 2017-2018.
- Good impact of Direct Benefit Transfer scheme in LPG.
- Citizens in far-flung, isolated regions find it tough to obtain passports, therefore, head post offices will now be used as front offices.
- A Centralised Defence Travel System will be in place where tickets can be booked by soldiers and officers easily in a hassle-free manner.
- For Public Servants, it will now become easy to get recruitment in a central government office. A 2-tier system of examination will be there.
- Introduction of a legislative changes will be there for all the economic offenders who are fled the country through confiscation of their property.
- Web-based pension distribution system put in place for defense pensioners.
- Union Government will celebrate Champaran Satyagraha centenary in the year 2017.
