Budget

Inclusive Development: A mantra loudly chanted in the Budget-2023

As the annual post-budget commotion seems settled, a critical analysis of the budget and the overall opinion seem tilted in favour of Finance Minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman. Although it will sound political, the fact remains that the budget has been able to reflect the most used slogan of Prime Minister...

PM Narendra Modi’s post-budget talk on ‘Green Growth’

Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently addressed 12 webinars to ensure the effective implementation of the Union Budget initiatives. The webinars were attended by more than 3.5 lakh people representing about 15000 organisations from all over the country. In these webinars, the Prime Minister discussed the role of the States and...

Rajasthan Assembly: BJP protests after CM Gehlot mistakenly reads previous year’s budget

Opposition BJP members protested in the Rajasthan Assembly on Friday alleging that Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot was reading from the old budget. Following the alleged blunder made by the Congress leader, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators protested and the assembly proceedings got disrupted. Meanwhile, Gehlot clarified by asking if there's...

 BJP workers detained for protesting against Kerala state budget

Amid the ongoing protest against the state budget in Kerala, the Kerala Police has detained Bharatiya Janata Party workers protesting in Kochi. The protest was against the Left government's refusal to roll back the tax proposals and social security cess on fuel and liquor, announced in the budget. Police used...

Rajasthan CM finalises Budget document to be tabled Friday

As the Rajasthan government is set to present its annual Budget for 2023-24 on Friday, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, who also holds the finance portfolio, on Thursday gave the final touch to the Budget document. The finalisation of the Budget document was done in the presence of secretary finance (Revenue)...

Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports gets a boost of highest ever budget

India is all set to play in the Asian Games later this year and the Paris Olympics next year. The centre has furthered its efforts in strengthening the sports arena by allocating the highest ever budget of 3397.32 crores under union budget 2023-2024.  Last year, the sports sector received a...

‘Will create more jobs’ CII president Sanjiv Bajaj welcomes Union Budget 2023-24

Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) president Sanjiv Bajaj on Wednesday welcomed the Union Budget for the financial year 2023-24 by saying that this will have a multiplier effect on the economy."The government managed a tough balancing act of meeting the priorities of growth through capital spending while keeping a fiscal...

Union Budget 2023: Mobiles to get cheaper, Jewelry prices to upscale

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the union budget 2023 which is the last full-fledged budget of Modi government before the Lok Sabha election rings in 2024. Ms. Sitharaman's budget speech outlined which items would be cheaper and which would be more expensive. Here is the list of items which...

Price rise on Cigarettes leads to meme fest on Social Media

The union budget for the financial year 2023-2024 is out. The finance minister has introduced many exemptions for the middle class, however, the budget has not been modified much. As soon as the budget was introduced, netizens got active on the social media. The one thing that is being doing...

Govt not addressing economic issues, common man’s plight: KC Venugopal