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- Big spending push blended with bold financial reforms
- Insurance sector thrown open: FDI hike to 74% sets stage for its…
- Health gets a vaccine shot, water in…
- To fund growth cycle, a bad bank and a DFI
Govt & Politics
- Flagship schemes in Budget 2021: Big hike in finance and health sectors
- Will deploy all resources to find perpetrators : Modi to Netanyahu
The Fisc
- FY22 fiscal deficit target at 6.8%, 5-year glide path drawn to rein it in
- Cost of transparency: Rs 3.7 lakh crore
- Tax devolution to states at 41%, non-lapsable fund for defence to be set up
Macro
Editorial
- A reckoning postponed
- A step towards transparency
- A bold leap, no playing to gallery
- The backsliding
Ideas
- Relying on growth
- Missing : Push for jobs, welfare
- Continuing the change
Taxation
- No return filing for pensioners over 75 ; boost to startup investment
- Petrol Diesel 15 other commodities attract cess to fund agri infra development
Agriculture
- With recovery taking roots, job scheme outlay cut to Rs 73,000 crore
- Significant increase in fertiliser subsidy as Budget sidesteps reform
- Behind reduction in agriculture budget, lower spending under PM-Kisan
Social Sector
- Govt cuts proposed education spending by Rs 6,000 cr
- Focus on clean air, govt earmarks Rs 2,217 cr for 42 urban centres
- Allocation Of Rs 24,435 crore Hike in WCD budget, Mission Poshan 2.0 launched
Defence & Rlys
- 4.78 lakh crore allocated for defence, capital outlay up 19%
- Rs 80,000-crore loan helps shore up Railways finances
Infra
- Government looks at sharp capital expenditure hike
- Funding tap open, enhanced outlay of Rs 1.18 lakh crore for highways sector
- Coming soon a vehicle scrapping policy
Explained
- How budget maps spending route out of pandemic
World
- Coup in Myanmar
- India other nation express concern over coup