Union Budget 2021 highights: A new centrally sponsored scheme, PM Atma Nirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana, will be launched with an outlay of about Rs 64,180 crore over six years

Proposing highway infra work including awarding 8,500-km of highways by March 2022, FM Sitharaman further announced highway projects in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Assam

Union budget 2021 India Inc expectations: Industry representatives are hopeful that the Union Budget 2021 would play a vital role in achieving the objective of putting India on a sustained high-growth trajectory

Sensex, Nifty Highlights on Budget day, February 1: Almost all the sectors closed in green territory today, rising in the range of 3-6%, except for pharma index

The finance minister is being assisted by a team of advisers and secretaries in making Union Budget 2021 tasked with the mission to pull the economy from the deep abyss

Although the challenges are complex and expectations from the budget are high, the budget needs to be a well-intended one in its approach and commitment to the development of the sector and the realisation of the vision of the NEP

Union Budget 2021 Highlights: Congress leader P. Chidambaram said that the government had only marginally raised health funding, which when adjusted to inflation becomes nil

With a cohesive effort from both public and private players, the Indian bio-pharma industry has the potential to unlock tremendous growth over the next few years

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman says preparation of this Budget was taken under circumstances like never before

Railway Budget 2020: Ministry of Railways has sought Rs 75,000 crore gross budgetary support from Ministry of Finance in the upcoming Budget. This is against the total outlay of Rs 1.8 lakh crore laid out in the budget representation by the ministry

Budget 2021: It is expected that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman would offer clarifications on these ambiguities in her third Budget Speech. These announcements will be closely watched by global tech giants, who have expressed their reservations over the digital tax

Budget 2021: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already indicated that Budget 2021 is part of a series of four-five \"mini-budgets'' presented in the form of economic packages last year. So what should you expect from this year's budget?

The Economic Survey 2020-21 presented in Parliament on Friday expects the growth rate to rebound sharply from an estimated record contraction of 7.7 per cent in the current financial year on account of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

Making widescale digital education a reality will help attract FDI in the education sector, thereby enabling India to become an attractive destination for higher education at par with global standards

For people to benefit, the budget needs overhauling to create jobs; revive small businesses; address poverty and health and education deprivations. Pursuing the existing paradigm of growth may push GDP and stock markets up without improving the living standards of the vast majority

We focused on saving life and livelihood, took short-term pain for long-term gain, recognised that while GDP will recover... lost human lives cannot be brought back. This was the humane principle that guided India's policy response, Subramanian said

The government has also extended the Infrastructure Viability Gap Funding scheme until 2024-25 to attract more Public-Private Partnership projects and facilitate private investment in social sectors like health, education, wastewater, solid waste management, and water supply, the survey noted

The Economic Survey estimated real GDP growth for FY22 at 11 per cent and nominal GDP (which accounts for inflation) at 15.4 per cent. This would mark the highest GDP growth since independence

The public debt to GDP ratio, which was around 66-68 per cent for many years , is now expected to jump to 80 per cent plus in 2020-21. This kind of debt-to-GDP ratio is the highest in the last two decades

The survey, presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Parliament on Friday, January 29, further stated that, improving the composition and quality of expenditure therefore assumes significance