Sir,
I rise to present the budget for the year 2002-03. 2. The year 2001, the first year of the millennium, was a year of many tragic
events. It started with the Gujarat earthquake on January 26, and ended
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with the terrorist attack on
our Parliament on December 13, punctuated by the September 11 incident in the United
States and the October 1 outrage in Srinagar. I salute the brave members of our security
forces who defended this Parliament and made the supreme sacrifice. On the economic front
too it has been a difficult year. World economic growth is estimated to have slowed down
to 2.4 per cent in 2001 after seven consecutive years of higher growth. International
terror and the global economic slowdown have been the saddest features of the past
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