Modi calls for innovation special focus on skills and tourism

NEW DELHI. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday called for innovative approaches to budget-making, and a special focus on skill development and tourism. 
 
Attending the session on "Economic Policy - The Road Ahead", the prime minister said the budget has a significant effect effect on India's real economy and wanted this yearly exercise to be given prime importance. 
 
Till date, Modi observed, such exercises earmarked expenditure only at the onset of monsoon, which was not desirable as it results in government programmes being relatively inactive in the productive pre-monsoon months.Business Standard

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