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Arun Jaitley's Union Budget 2016: When it comes to the spoken words,Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today laid much emphasis onfarmers, agriculture, growth, investment and infrastructure inhis Budget speech, literally. (Source: PIB twitter)<a href="https://www.financialexpress.com/article/budget-2016/union-budget-2016-live-highlights-income-tax-arun-jaitley-service-tax-gst-bill-7th-pay-commission-news/217358/"><strong>Union Budget 2016 highlights: Cigarettes, cars to become expensive; HRA exemption raised to Rs 60,000</strong></a>
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Arun Jaitley's Union Budget 2016: 'Investment' was among the most-spoken keywords with asmany as 37 mentions, although down from 60 in his last year'sBudget speech. Growth was also referred to 20 times, down from27 last year, while farmers and agriculture found 32 and 24mentions, respectively. (Source: PIB twitter)<a href="https://www.financialexpress.com/article/budget-2016/union-budget-2016-live-highlights-income-tax-arun-jaitley-service-tax-gst-bill-7th-pay-commission-news/217358/"><strong>Union Budget 2016 highlights: Cigarettes, cars to become expensive; HRA exemption raised to Rs 60,000</strong></a>
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Arun Jaitley's Union Budget 2016: Jaitley's predecessor P Chidambaram had used 'growth' 32times during his interim budget speech in February 2014, butthe word 'investment' was spoken only 11 times by him. (Source: PIB twitter)<a href="https://www.financialexpress.com/article/budget-2016/union-budget-2016-live-highlights-income-tax-arun-jaitley-service-tax-gst-bill-7th-pay-commission-news/217358/"><strong>Union Budget 2016 highlights: Cigarettes, cars to become expensive; HRA exemption raised to Rs 60,000</strong></a>
Arun Jaitley's Union Budget 2016: Besides, Jaitley also talked about rural areas or economy as many as 25 times. Terming 'ease of doing business' one of the key pillars of the Budget proposals, the Finance Minister used this phrase as many as six times — albeit again down from 10 last year. (Source: PIB twitter) 
Arun Jaitley's Union Budget 2016: Jaitley used the word 'crisis' just once, but referred to 'opportunities' as many as 12 times as he talked about the government's commitment to covert the global crisis into an opportunity for the Indian economy. (Source: PIB twitter) 
Arun Jaitley's Union Budget 2016: The 'common man' however found just one mention, while 'black money' was used twice although he referred to the menace of tax evasion quite a few times. Other keywords that found quite a few mentions included jobs, skills, youth, corporate and poor. (Source: PIB twitter) 
Arun Jaitley's Union Budget 2016: Jaitley spoke of 'deficit' six times, same as last year, while 'slowdown' was mentioned just once. 'Inflation', which has been a major cause of worry in the past, was mentioned just thrice — down from eight times last year. (Source: PIB twitter) 
Arun Jaitley's Union Budget 2016: Words like 'inflation', 'deficit' and 'poor' had found repeated mentions in earlier budgets. Reference to the term 'infrastructure', which has been listed as a key focus area for the government, was made as many as 27 times. This word was referred to 30 times last year also by Jaitley, while he had mentioned this word 33 times in his July 2014 budget speech as well. Chidambaram had spoken this word eight times in February 2014. (Source: PIB twitter) -
Arun Jaitley's Union Budget 2016: Presenting the third Budget, Finance Minister ArunJaitley also proposed a 'Krishi Kalyan' cess of 0.5 per centon all taxable services to improve agriculture and reductionof duties on project imports for cold room for cold chain,refrigerated containers and a number of other items. (Source: PIB twitter)<a href="https://www.financialexpress.com/article/budget-2016/union-budget-2016-live-highlights-income-tax-arun-jaitley-service-tax-gst-bill-7th-pay-commission-news/217358/"><strong>Union Budget 2016 highlights: Cigarettes, cars to become expensive; HRA exemption raised to Rs 60,000</strong></a>
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Arun Jaitley's Union Budget 2016: Cigarette and tobacco products will become costlier withthe hike in excise duty by 10 to 15 per cent. While the revenue loss on direct taxes will be Rs 1060crore, his indirect tax proposal will mobilise an additionalRs 20,670 crore. Net revenue gain will be Rs 19,610 crore. (Source: PIB twitter)<a href="https://www.financialexpress.com/article/budget-2016/union-budget-2016-live-highlights-income-tax-arun-jaitley-service-tax-gst-bill-7th-pay-commission-news/217358/"><strong>Union Budget 2016 highlights: Cigarettes, cars to become expensive; HRA exemption raised to Rs 60,000</strong></a>
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