Much of Nirmala Sitharaman’s energy, while presenting the Union Budget for the 2024–25 fiscal in Parliament on Tuesday (February 23), was focused on jobs. And with good reason. India has witnessed job growth slow over the past couple of years and there has been talk around the dreaded phenomenon of ‘jobless growth’. So, while presenting her seventh consecutive budget, Sitharaman tried her best to give job growth a fillip.