Front Page
- Medium WAVE (GS-3 Budget)
- FM moots tax on virtual assets (Prelims)
- Prelims – Virtual Assets, NFTs, HIFO and LIFO method
- 5G services to roll out in FY23: Sitharaman (GS-3 Infrastructure)
Text & Context
- The long road to timely MGNREGA payments (GS-2)
- Mains : MGNREGA Benefits, challenges, issues with payment delay – how can it be resolved
- The FTA talks between India and the United Kingdom (GS-2)
- Mains : India – UK Relationship
World
- Russia’s envoy thanks India, others, over Ukraine stand (GS-2)
- Protesters defy junta order in Myanmar (GS-2)
- Japan adopts resolution on China rights situation (GS-2)
News
- PM terms Budget ‘people friendly, progressive’ (GS-3)
- Big push to improve connectivity to villages along China border (GS-3)
- Prelims – Vibrant Villages Programme
- Mains : Model Villages by China near LAC and its impact on India
- All post offices to come under core banking (GS-3)
- Mains : Financial Inclusion
OPED
- Focus on accelerating growth with stability (GS-3)
- A betrayal of the social sector when it needs help (GS-2/3)
- A Budget that sends mixed signals on health (GS-2/3)
Editorial
- A takeaway is the good infrastructure push (GS-3)
- A bold effort at public investment-led growth (GS-3)
- Big on hopes, short on ideas (GS-3)
Social Sector
- MGNREGS allocation cut by 25% to ₹73,000 cr. (GS-2)
- Mains : MGNREGA Benefits, challenges, issues with payment delay – how can it be resolved
- PM Awas Yojana gets an allocation of ₹48,000 cr. (GS-1)
- Prelims – PM Awas Yojana
- Digital varsity and e-content for schools planned (GS-2)
- ‘New-generation anganwadis’ on the cards (GS-2)
Infrastructure
- Record allocation of ₹1.37 lakh cr. for Railways
- Centre to set up high-level panel on urban policies
- Big boost for expansion of highways
- Govt. proposes new SEZ law
- FM moots ₹19,500-cr. push for solar manufacturing
Agriculture
Economy
- 16% hike in healthcare sector allocation
- Job creation gets fresh impetus
- Push for promotion of drones through start-ups
- Govt. has not lost sight of inflation: Sitharaman
- ‘Green bonds’ target carbon neutrality
- Digital rupee to arrive in new fiscal, to use blockchain tech.
- E-passports to be rolled out soon
- Defence outlay witnesses marginal increase
- Battery-swapping policy on anvil
- Budget gives MEA funds for Taliban-ruled Afghanistan
- Emergency credit line for MSMEs extended till March 2023
Taxes
- FM retains tax slabs, allows updated returns
- ‘Duty tweaks to spur electronics manufacture’
- Budget extends more sops for IFSC
- Tax incentive to start-ups extended for a year
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