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NEW DELHI - India's government on Tuesday sought parliament's approval for 236.75 billion rupees ($3.17 billion) in additional spending, including 107.3 billion rupees for a rural jobs programme in the current fiscal year ending in March 2022.
The extra spending is on top of the budgeted 34.83 trillion rupees ($465.35 billion) announced for the 2021/22 fiscal year in February, compared with 35.11 trillion rupees expenditure in the previous fiscal year.
($1 = 74.8475 Indian rupees)
(Reporting by Nigam Prusty and Manoj Kumar; Editing by Andrew Heavens) ((manoj.kumar@thomsonreuters.com; +91(11) 49548029;))