The Indian Express ADDA

The Budget has not given much importance to the SME sector. Can you take responsibility to integrate all the ministries to empower SMEs?

I have taken two inter-ministerial meeting on SMEs already. I would rather be known as a think tank who now deals much more with scale up than start up because that's the issue in this country. That is where a lot of hurdles and impediments come and that's where the growth and the drive will come. Raising the cap to Rs 250 crore for 25 percent tax is not a small step and all the SMEs are now free of any tax oppression. So, not a small step.

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