Achievement: The government exceeded the monetization target of the last financial year, and succeeded in raising one lakh crore rupees

NITI Aayog Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Amitabh Kant while addressing an event on Tuesday said that the government has exceeded its target of raising Rs 88,000 crore in the financial year 2021-22 under the National Monetization Pipeline (NMP). . He said that under this ambitious program, the revenue of more than one lakh crore rupees has been collected during the last financial year.

Amitabh Kant said at the Public Affairs Forum of India (PAFI) program that India needs to move ahead in all other sectors including manufacturing and services to achieve a high growth rate. He further said that India is running the biggest asset monetization program. We have been able to raise Rs 12,000 crore more than the earlier estimate. Let us inform here that the country's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman while announcing the National Monetization Pipeline Program in August last year, had said that the government would raise Rs 6 lakh crore in the next four years by putting government assets in the market.

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