Union Budget 2016-17

Updated : Jul 3, 2019

Budget 2019: Easing liquidity crisis and creating jobs should be FM's top priority

Everyone expects the FM to distribute sweet savoury. However, the key challenges ahead of FM that will need immediate action would be to arrest the dwindling GDP growth, addressing the agrarian distress and fixing the financial sector woes.

Updated : Feb 29, 2016

Union Budget 2016-17: 5 key investments announced by FM Arun Jaitley

Union Budget 2016-17: Key announcements by FM Arun Jaitley

Updated : Feb 29, 2016

Union Budget 2016-17: Key announcements by FM Jaitley

Union Budget 2016-17: Key announcements by FM Arun Jaitley

Updated : Feb 26, 2016

How Rail Budget 2016 will improve your train travel

Updated : Feb 13, 2016

Budget 2016: What Dalal Street expects from Arun Jaitley

Updated : Feb 10, 2016

Budget 2016 may be high on simplifying tax system

Updated : Feb 9, 2016

Top expectations of various sectors from Union Budget 2016

Updated : Feb 29, 2016

FM Jaitley presents Union Budget 2016-17 in Parliament

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented Union Budget 2016-17 in Parliament on Monday.

Updated : Feb 29, 2016

No change in income tax slabs

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has left the income tax slabs unchanged in Budget 2016-17. India Today expert panel discusses the impact of Budget.

Updated : Feb 29, 2016

Arun Jaitley defines 9 pillars to transform India

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley listed nine pillars including tax reforms, promoting ease of doing business and ensuring fiscal discipline, that will transform India.

Updated : Feb 29, 2016

Priority to provide funds to poor, says Arun Jaitley

Unveiling the Union Budget for 2016-17 on Monday, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced a string of measures for the development of rural areas.

Updated : Feb 29, 2016

Allocated Rs 55,000 cr for roads and highways, says Jaitley

Total outlay on roads and rails will be Rs 2.80 lakh crore. 10,000 km of national highways in 2016-17 and 50,000 km state highways to be converted to NH roads.

Updated : Feb 29, 2016

1.5 crore poor households to benefit from LPG connections

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday said the government has decided to provide LPG connections in name of women members of poor households.

Updated : Feb 29, 2016

Arun Jaitley focuses on small tax payers, rural economy

With big investments in the rural sector and a break for small tax payers, finance minister Arun Jaitley's Budget 2016 was largely pro-rural and pro-poor.

Updated : Feb 29, 2016

Tax rebate ceiling raised to Rs 5,000 for income slab below Rs 5 lakh per annum

More than 2 crore taxpayers under the Rs 5 lakh income slab will receive a rebate of Rs 3000 in their tax liability.

Updated : Feb 29, 2016

Budget 2016: Health insurance cover raised for senior citizens

A new health protection scheme for senior citizens has been unveiled in the Budget.

Updated : Feb 25, 2016

What agricultural sector expects from Union Budget 2016

Primary demands of the agricultural sector from Budget 2016-17 include tax-free products, raising minimum wages to 1500 and the need to have smart villages.

Updated : Feb 25, 2016

What passengers expect from Rail budget 2016

Making railways tech-savvy and improving the conditions of trains are among primary demands of the passengers from Rail Budget 2016-17. 

Updated : Feb 25, 2016

Suresh Prabhu presents Rail Budget 2016 in Parliament

Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu presented his second  Rail Budget speech in Parliament.

Updated : Feb 24, 2016

Budget 2016: Corporate India wishlist on tax reforms

As Budget 2016 approaches near, hopes are riding high that Parliament will pass the much-awaited Goods and Services Tax (GST). Watch what else India Inc expects from Finance Minstry Arun Jaitley.

Updated : Feb 24, 2016

What corporate professionals expect from Union Budget 2016

Increasing tax exemption limit, cleanliness in rural areas and reflection of HRA in budget are among primary demands of the corporate salaried professionals from Budget 2016-17. 