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Anand Ramamoorthy, managing director, Micron Technology (India) and Mahesh Palashikar, president, GE South Asia

Tech’s Budget Wish-list: Need of the hour: Mid- to long-term reforms

With new ways of working and new challenges in the Indian tech sector, the Union Budget should support sustained growth…

January 31, 2022 01:30 IST

Along with cultivating infrastructural and industrial growth in India, the Gati Shakti Yojna will escalate economic prosperity.

Budget 2022: What all does the infrastructure, industry and real estate sectors expect?

It is evident that the realty sector is coping with adversities and challenges and thus are the expectations from the…

January 29, 2022 17:41 IST

Union Budget 2022: Fintech industry hopes for incentives to push financial inclusion

Shruti Aggarwal, Co-founder, Stashfin, said the financial empowerment of women also leads to her family being financially empowered.

January 29, 2022 16:47 IST

Union Budget 2022: No zero hour, question hour during first two days of Budget Session of Parliament

Both, the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha will meet in shifts for five hours each day during the Budget…

Updated: January 29, 2022 11:13 IST

Educational institutions are also looking forward to the agenda of NEP 2020.

Union Budget 2022: Enhance digital learning as the pandemic continues

This is the new normal and adapting to the norms is what is expected out of a nation that prepares…

January 28, 2022 19:22 IST

This was decided at a meeting of the Congress Parliamentary Strategy group chaired by party chief Sonia Gandhi. (IE)

Budget session: Congress decides to work with like-minded parties; Raise farmers’ issue, border dispute

The meeting was held virtually and it was decided to raise the issues of farmers’ distress, border dispute with China…

January 28, 2022 15:56 IST

Near-term measures to support low-income population should be high on the finance minister's mind as she presents Budget FY23 on Tuesday.

Targeted aid: Will Budget undo the consumption shock?

Per capita income declined sharply in both FY20 and FY21; no wonder household consumption in the current fiscal year is…

January 28, 2022 05:45 IST

The services sector cannot provide jobs in the required numbers, so the manufacturing sector, particularly the MSME segment of it, could play a major role in job creation.

Job creation should be Budget’s top priority: Duvvuri Subbarao, former governor, RBI

The increase in inequality is by far the deepest scar that the pandemic is going to leave behind. This has…

January 28, 2022 05:15 IST

However, all of this—PLI schemes and asset monetisation—won’t be enough to give the economy the push it needs.

Budget alone can’t push recovery

The business environment needs to be helpful so that the informal sector can recover and create jobs

January 28, 2022 05:00 IST

Just look at the languishing consumption of middle-income durable goods, such as two-wheelers and the increase in MNREGA recipients.

Income Question: India’s budget choices have become harder

Income-loss is a big headwind to growth in the medium term; Budget must cut fiscal deficit sharply, while increasing income…

January 28, 2022 04:45 IST

Both corporates and the common man will have high hopes from the Budget announcements to propel the economy into a rising trajectory once again.

Budget 2022 wish-list: Looking for sops in NPS, insurance

Switches between schemes of the same mutual fund are subjected to capital gains tax unlike in Ulip transfers. This disparity…

January 28, 2022 01:45 IST

This high rate of interest constrains the growth of these businesses, which form the backbone of the Indian economy, forming 30% of India’s GDP and 45% of our manufacturing exports.

Budget 2022: Focus on ensuring fund allocation to fintech NBFCs

Businesses that are still reeling from the impact of Covid-19 hold high expectations from the Union Budget 2022.

January 28, 2022 01:00 IST

Subbarao also opined that experience shows export promotion behind protectionist walls is seldom competitive, so there is a case for reducing the tariffs. (File)

Budget 2022 should focus on bridging widened inequality in economy, creating jobs, says former RBI Governor D Subbarao

The former RBI Governor pointed out that jobs have been lost because of the shift in activity from the labour-intensive…

Updated: January 27, 2022 17:10 IST

Union Budget 2022: Two-thirds Indians expect Centre to increase health care allocation, 53% want higher tax deductions

The survey maps consumer sentiment and expectations ahead of what many expect to be a crucial period for the turnaround…

January 27, 2022 11:38 IST

The Centre via Budget may invest 18% more in FY23 than in FY22 at around Rs 6.53 lakh crore to retain its budgetary capex at 2.5% of GDP as in FY22 (assuming 12.5% nominal GDP growth for next year over the advance estimate for the current year).

Extra Push: Capex outlay in FY23 pegged at Rs 10.5 lakh crore

Spend by the Centre, CPSEs to be up about 9% over FY22 BE

January 27, 2022 06:00 IST

For the first time in independent India, the government was forced last year to consider halting this practice and look for alternatives, as it was difficult to maintain social distancing in limited space given the fears of Covid spread.

Budget 2022 to go ‘paperless’ for the second time

This also means there will be no trucks loaded with Budget papers this time at the Parliament complex on February…

January 27, 2022 03:00 IST

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Budget 2022 expectations: Will FM Nirmala Sitharaman provide much-needed booster shot to Ayurveda Industry?

Ayurveda has been providing holistic solutions to ailments, physical and mental, for ages, but notable progress on the science has…

January 26, 2022 19:09 IST

IFSC is key to the growth of the financial services sector in India.

Giving financial services a boost: Budget FY23 needs to focus on passporting rights for IFSC funds

Generally, any cross-border financial services activity, including marketing of such activity, requires establishment or registration in the other jurisdiction.

January 26, 2022 05:30 IST

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