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Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma. File | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma on Saturday (February 1, 2025) said the 2025-26 Union Budget had presented a proper balance of economic development, social inclusion and environment protection, while taking important steps towards realising the vision of a developed India. Mr….
File photo of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav. | Photo Credit: PTI Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Saturday (February 1, 2025) praised Union Budget 2025 saying that it has special provisions for the poor, women, youth and farmers as well as for start-ups, innovation and artificial intelligence (AI). Thanking Prime Minister Narendra…
A file image of Buggana Rajendranath Reddy | Photo Credit: The Hindu The YSR Congress Party has slammed Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu for not mounting pressure on the Centre to get more sops to the State and letting go of the advantage to Bihar State. Speaking to the media in Kurnool on Saturday (February…
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A file image of Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi | Photo Credit: ANI Calling the Union Budget historic, Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Majhi on Saturday (February 1, 2025) said it is intended for every section of the society such as farmers, daily wage earners, middle class, employees, women, youth and students. “The Union government…
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Image for representative purpose | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the New Employment Generation Scheme, formulated to support employment generation across the country, will receive ₹20,000 crore. For the Labour Ministry, the allocation has been increased from ₹18,307.22 crore in the Revised Estimates (RE) of 2024-25 to ₹32,646.19 crore in…
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Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy with Ministers and officials at a review meeting on Budget, SC categorisation and Caste Survey on Saturday. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement The marathon meeting of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy with Ministers at the Police Command Control Centre focused on the discrimination in the Union Budget and is said…
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, unseen, holds a digital tablet enclosed in a traditional ‘bahi-khata’ style pouch containing the paperless ‘Union Budget 2025-26’, outside the Finance Ministry, at North Block in New Delhi on February 1, 2025 | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her eighth consecutive Budget on Saturday…
The Union Budget for 2025-26, presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday, is a mixed bag for Tamil Nadu. The DMK government’s slew of requests, including allocation of funds for the Chennai Metro Rail Project and disaster relief, did not find a mention in the Budget speech, while broader measures, including income tax benefits…
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This piece analyses the Union Budget 2025-26 for its employment generating impact from both a macro-economic as well as a micro-economic perspective. It does it by examining two sets of proposals: the first is the flagship personal income tax (PIT) slabs revision; and second, the ‘schemes’ announced in the classic government way for translating budget…
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Representational image of roadwork in progress | Photo Credit: E. Lakshmi Narayanan The annual growth in budgetary allocation for the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways continued to see a decline for the second year in a row. The Ministry received an allocation of ₹2.87 lakh crore. This is a mere 2.4% increase as compared…
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