Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman spoke at the 17th edition of the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit. She said that the there is a need to bring back credibility into data. She said that there are times when something goes wrong on the ground and hence the government holds back the data. Watch the video for her full response.
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