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GUJARAT BUDGET 2018
Ready for 2024: Modi sarkar signals poll comfort in BudgetThe key highlight of that interim budget was the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) initiative, with an outlay of Rs 75,000 crore...
Budget 2020: Govt proposes to set up Indian Institute of Heritage and ConservationFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday proposed the setting up of an Indian Institute of Heritage and Conservation under the Minis...
In a balacing act, Gujarat budget focuses on farmers, jobless youthThe budget has allocated an additional Rs 41,553 crore more for developmental spends at Rs 1,11,565 crore in FY19, while non-development ex...
Gujarat Budget: Here are the highlightsHere are the highlights of Gujarat Budget 2018-19.
Why the Budget may not benefit the female kisanHundreds of Ladubens have been documented by the Working Group for Women and Land Ownership (WGWLO), an NGO in Gujarat.
‘Jai Kisan’, ‘Jai Ex-Jawan’: How Modi govt's pre-election budget is aimed at pleasing massesGiven the Gujarat election results and widespread farm distress, this had to be a ‘Jai Kisan’ Budget. Higher MSPs could end up stoking infl...
There are stronger underlying bullish currents for medium to long termIndia is the fastest growing economy, and the government is committed to reforms.
The budget signals a shift in BJP's focus — from protecting its voter base to wooing Congress votersSince most of the garib and all of the kisan live in rural India, and that is where the Gujarat elections rang alarm bells, the focus on bo...
Budget 2018: BJP leaders back thrust on farmers, dalits and tribalsWhile the National Health Protection Scheme has become the talking point of the budget, some MPs felt that implementing it could be a tall ...
Budget 2018 shows government alarmed by Gujarat poll results: Shiv SenaThe saffron party, in an editorial in its mouthpiece 'Saamana', also said Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had had merely repackaged old schem...
Four critical messages to voters that Arun Jaitley wrapped in his BudgetThe Budget appears to aim at generating noise that might benefit the ruling BJP party in the coming Assembly elections in five states.
FM proposes unified regulator for IFSC at GIFT cityThe move, announced during the unveiling of the budget, is expected to provide a fillip to India's first international financial services c...
Can PM Modi afford to ignore 70% of India in Budget 2018-19?Traditionally, Modi's BJP has been seen to rely on middle-class voters—urban workers and small traders. But Modi's rise to power was fuelle...
Middle class thinks it would get a raw deal in Budget 2018, says ET.com surveyThe erosion of the BJP's rural base in the Gujarat elections can force the government to offer more benefits to the rural sector than other...
Midcap valuation biggest worry: Rahul AroraMarket is expecting budget to be largely rural focused in backdrop of Gujarat elections.
Arun Jaitley holds pre-Budget meet with state finance ministersThis is part of the customary pre-Budget consultation which the Union Finance Minister holds with his state peers.
If it's a farm budget from Arun Jaitley, then it needs to be a smart oneMore freebies will not ensure that the farm sector comes out of its long crisis. The freebies have already distorted Indian agriculture
Gujarat scare may sow seeds of farm-focused policy in Union BudgetThe February Budget will be the last full-fledged one that will be presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley before the next election.
Political factors to weigh more on economy: AssochamGoing forward, major attention is likely to be given to the rural landscape with several initiatives like support to farmers, rural and agr...
Health budget hiked by 28%; 5,000 PG seats to be createdGovt also announced setting up of two more AIIMS in Jharkhand and Gujarat and asserted that it has prepared an action plan to eliminate kal...