The Union Budget for FY 2024-25, presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, focuses on sustained growth through tax stability, infrastructure development, and social welfare. Key initiatives include maintaining income tax slabs, extending startup incentives, modernising railways, and promoting rooftop solarisation. The budget also emphasises inclusive development for farmers, women, youth, and the poor, aiming for India to become a developed nation by 2047.
In a much-anticipated budget presentation, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman outlined the fiscal blueprint for the upcoming financial year 2024-25. With a comprehensive approach encompassing taxation, infrastructure development, social welfare, and economic reforms, the budget aims to steer India
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The budget maintains the status quo on income tax slabs, ensuring stability for taxpayers. There are also no changes in tax rates for corporations, LLPs, or other entities.
The budget includes the modernisation of railways by converting 40,000 bogies to Vande Bharat standards and aims to enable 1 crore households to receive free electricity through rooftop solarisation.
The budget ensures food security by providing free rations to 80 crore people, offers incremental increases in minimum support prices (MSP), and extends financial assistance to 11.8 crore farmers annually under the PM Kisan Samman Yojana.
A corpus of ₹1 lakh crore has been established to provide long-term interest-free financing, aimed at boosting private sector research and development (R&D).
The budget outlines a vision to transform India into a developed nation by 2047, with a focus on inclusive development, economic stability, and innovation.
The budget highlights the achievement of lifting 25 crore people out of poverty and includes schemes like PM JANMAN and PM Vishakarma to empower marginalised groups, artisans, and vulnerable sections of society.