Budget 2018: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has presented the Narendra Modi-led NDA government’s final full Union Budget on Thursday. There is a bit of disappointment for the common man and for consumer sentiment in general as there will be no change in income tax rates.
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Earlier in June, Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy had waged an attack on CEA Arvind Subramanian, alleging he had an "anti-India stance" when he was at the IMF.
Soon after the budget was announced, PM Modi re-tweeted Jayant Sinha's (MoS Finance) graphic cards explaining how the budget will impact people in different strata of the society.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley outlined the economic agenda of the ruling Narendra Modi-led government in his third budget presented in the Lok Sabha Monday.
The Union Railway Budget 2016-17 focused on capacity creation in the rail sector, with an increased outlay of about Rs. 1.21 lakh crore, and on completion of the ongoing projects rather than announcing new ones.
The 2015 Union Budget last year was the first full-fledged budget presented by the Narendra Modi administration after it was sworn to power in the Lok Sabha elections of 2014.
