Page 128 - Budget 2022 News

Budget fails to address demonetisation concerns: Naveen Patnaik

Union Budget 2017-18 is a mixed bag falls short of expectations on many counts, says Patnaik

Benefit on second house capped

FM has capped the interest a borrower could deduct on buying a second home to Rs 2 lakh in a FY

Budget 2017: Insurance industry hails decision to hike coverage under PMFBY

Farmers will benefit with the government spending Rs 13,240 crore in fiscal 18 on crop insurance

Budget brings lower indirect levies for clean energy equipment

Piyush Goyal said his ministry would soon start auction for another 20GW of solar parks

Defence budget up over 6.2% at Rs 2.74 lakh cr in 2017-18

The defence industry also welcomed the increased capital expenditure

Nabard hails higher fund allocation for irrigation, dairy

Budget has hiked the corpus of long-term irrigation fund by another Rs 20,000 crore

Jaitley says jobs, skill training among 10 key focus areas

Jaitley said govt proposes to extend Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendras to more than 600 districts

Govt to launch TIES to fund export infrastructure

Exporters body said scheme will help create modern infrastructure like last mile connectivity

Jaitley unveils education reforms, to set up National Testing Agency

Access to SWAYAM would be widened by linkage with DTH channels, dedicated to education, Jaitley said

With only 6% hike in excise duty, ITC cheers Budget 2017

Tax increase is lowest over the past six years but inclusion of sin tax in GST regime a key overhang

Fiscal deficit to be contained at 3.2% in FY18, says Jaitley

Revenue deficit will be reduced to 2.1% for 2017-18 from 2.3% in the ongoing financial year, he said

Govt removes all taxes on PoS machines to push e-payments

Jaitley exempted components from taxes to encourage domestic manufacturing of these devices

Highways allocation stepped up to Rs 64,000 crore: Arun Jaitley

'For transport sector -- railways, road, shipping, govt provides Rs 2,41,000 cr,' Jaitleysaid

Record Rs 3.96 lakh crore allocation for infra to spur growth: Jaitley

2,000 kms of coastal connectivity roads have been identified for construction, development: Jaitley

Cash dealings above Rs 3 lakh banned from April 1: Jaitley

The SIT in July had submitted its fifth report to Supreme Court on steps needed to curb black money

Budget focuses on demonetisation; Jaitley calls it bold, decisive measure

Jaitley assured that effects of demonetisation are not expected to spill over to the next year

Bharat Net allocation moves up to Rs 10,000 crore for 2017-18

Jaitley said the recent spectrum auctions have removed the spectrum scarcity in the country

Agri credit raised to record Rs 10 lakh crore in FY18

Govt will take special efforts to ensure adequate credit flow to underserved areas, Jaitley said

Budget to try and ease pain from cash crunch

Scrapping of high-value currency notes, worth 86% of cash in circulation, has hit consumer demand

IndiGo dips 5% on disappointing Q3 results

The stock dipped 5% to Rs 854 on the BSE in early morning trade