{"id":502886,"date":"2024-02-24T19:32:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T14:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=502886"},"modified":"2024-02-24T19:35:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T14:05:23","slug":"nirmala-sitharaman-mumbai-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/nirmala-sitharaman-mumbai-local\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman travels by Mumbai local, takes selfies with commuters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday travelled in a Mumbai local train and interacted with commuters while travelling from Ghatkopar to Kalyan. She also took pictures with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sitharaman left commuters by surprise when she made her way inside their coaches. This morning, the commuters had an unusual co-passenger travelling with them. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for the passengers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking to X, Sitharaman\u2019s office informed that the Finance Minister took a ride in a local from Ghatkopar to Kalyan. The office also shared pictures of Sitharaman taking selfies with the youngsters and office-goers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Smt <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nsitharaman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nsitharaman<\/a> interacts with commuters while travelling from Ghatkopar to Kalyan in a Mumbai local train. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T15BdC3f5V\">pic.twitter.com\/T15BdC3f5V<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Nirmala Sitharaman Office (@nsitharamanoffc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nsitharamanoffc\/status\/1761308094288806157?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Later in the day, Sitharaman also attended the inauguration ceremony of the BITS Pilani news campus in Kalyan,&nbsp;Maharashtra. Addressing the ceremony, she said that a growing India draws from its skilled youths who contributed to the nation&#8217;s development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She further said that the impact of a well-rounded education is such that different services and different domains benefit from their presence, adding that, she said that most often the government is lectured by the Western top leader that India should have a culture of charity, to which she thoroughly disagreed with them by giving them the example of institution like BITS, which promotes good education, funds needy students and sets a good example of various other charitable work they have done, Sitharaman added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, Sitharaman said that the innovation from India to innovate for India was the principle with which her government has worked, so innovation gets all the support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking about the recent budget, She said that, the vote on the account budget, she had announced that there would be a corpus of Rs 1 lakh crore given for the corpus for a special purpose vehicle which will be created by the government, which will be funding innovations and research and development activities, she asserted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A growing India draws from its youth, the skilled youth which contributes to this growth. <br><br>BITS Pilani, an institution which started just from being a &#39;Paathshala&#39;, is now an institution where people now long to study.<br><br>There are 7,400 CEOs from BITS Pilani, many in Fortune 500\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0piPRjR4Qy\">pic.twitter.com\/0piPRjR4Qy<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Nirmala Sitharaman Office (@nsitharamanoffc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nsitharamanoffc\/status\/1761384194104873005?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BITS Pilani, an institution which started just from being a &#8216;Paathshala&#8217;, is now an institution where people now long to study, she added. There have been 7,400 CEOs from BITS Pilani, many in Fortune 500 companies, she further added. Over 3,300 academicians, including Vice-Chancellors, Directors, and Heads of Departments in prestigious universities globally, are from BITS Pilani, she said at the inauguration of BITS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Sitharaman took a ride in a local from Ghatkopar to Kalyan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":502892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman travels by Mumbai local, takes selfies with commuters","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,125714],"tags":[148459,18674],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/02\/24185409\/GHFsUy1bkAAKza0.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502886"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=502886"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=502886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->