budget 2019
FM discusses budget proposals with financial sector regulators
The Council also held consultations to obtain inputs and suggestions of the financial sector regulators for the Budget.
Budget 2019: Govt faces hard choice of 9 pc growth or 2 pc decline on MGNREGA
Budget 2019: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman may have to raise allocation for NREGA to alleviate agrarian crisis.
Govt likely to provide Rs 30,000 crore to PSU banks in Budget 2019
The public sector banks would also require capital for the credit growth, which has just started picking up.
Budget: An electoral ploy walks a tightrope
Mercifully, the extent of this excess is not as yet so great as to cause major worries.
Difficult for govt to maintain 3.4 pc fiscal deficit in FY'20: Moody's
The govt has pegged the fiscal deficit for the next financial year at 3.4 per cent of GDP, as against the original target of 3.1 per cent.
Cash to farmers can be increased if resources improve: Arun Jaitley
Arun Jaitley said state governments must support the centre on direct cash transfers to farmers in the spirit of cooperative federalism.
Welfare budget: Unconventional
The budget aims to contain the fiscal deficit to 3.4% 0.1% more than budgeted and in the next FY it is anticipated to be 3.3%.
People’s Budget and why not?
Taxpayers have always been at the receiving end of successive budgets even as the government constantly grappled with getting its fiscal math right.
Budget is part of BJP’s poll pitch
The tax sop is in line with the additional 10 per cent reservation announced for the Hindu upper castes earlier this month.
Tax rebates for middle class to benefit travel, tourism sector: Industry
The focus on tax rebates for the middle class has brought a sigh of relief for them and now they will be able to spend more on vacations.