This comes after the ministry amended a 20-year old norm in regard to the incentives payable. This will encourage the central government staffers to go for a higher educational degree.

Under the transition scheme, builders have the option to apply for either the new GST rates -1% for affordable under-construction houses and 5% on other houses - or old rates on the ongoing projects where construction and actual bookings both started before April 1, 2019.

Jaitley countered the claims of flaws in India's economic data by stating that the same data is accepted by credible international institutions like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

The Pak government said many of these offshore account holders did not have legitimate, documented business.

Pramod Sawant was sworn in by Goa governor Mridula Sinha at Raj Bhavan at 1.50 am.