Budgeting for agriculture and food
The Union Budget 2023-24 was presented against the backdrop of some critical geopolitical developments and was the last full budget before the next general elections. Signicantly, 2023 is also the year
Budget
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Thomas rules out clearance of food security Bill in Budget session
New Delhi Food minister K V Thomas on Thursday ruled out clearance of food security Bill in the ongoing Budget session of Parliament, saying consultations are still on to sort out problems raised by states and that it can be taken up only in the next Monsoon session. “How can it come in the Budget session...Parliamentary Standing Committee is yet to submit its report,” Thomas said on the sidelines of a function of food and consumer affairs ministry here.
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Union Budget: School education exempt from service tax
NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee announced that school education will be exempt from service tax. He added that there will be a tax on all services except those 17 items in the negative list.
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Union Budget 2012: Auto sector against higher tax on diesel cars
NEW DELHI: Auto sector lashed out at the government for trying to impose higher tax on diesel cars, while preparing to cut duties on those imported from Europe. "What we expect from the upcoming Budget
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Union Budget: Infrastructure will require Rs.50 lakh crore in 12th Plan, says FM
NEW DELHI: Infrastructure will require Rs.50 lakh crore in 12th Five Year Plan, half of this from the private sector, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said while presenting the Budget 2012-13. The Economic
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Union Budget 2012: Pranab ups individual tax exemption limit to Rs 2 lakh, need speedy reforms
Presenting Union Budget 2012-13, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee marginally raised the individual income tax exemption limit to Rs 2 lakh and said tax on income up to Rs 10 lakh per annum would be 20
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Pranab Mukherjee to present 81st Union Budget in history
The government will present its 81st Budget proposals in the history of Independent India, when Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee reads out his taxation and other economic policies before Parliament on
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N-E states register highest growth in service sector: Economic Survey
New Delhi: In the face of a gloomy economy at home and global crisis abroad, the lowly services sector proved a savior with the backward Northeast region registering the highest growth in this segment, the much-awaited Economic Survey released on Thursday said. The Economic Survey for 2011-12 tabled by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in Parliament, on the eve of presentation of the general Budget, projected a 7.6 per cent growth for the next fiscal.
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Agri credit target increased by Rs 1 lakh cr for 2012-13
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today announced Rs 1,00,000 crore increase in the agriculture credit target to Rs 5,75,000 for the next fiscal and raised the outlay for farm sector by about Rs 3,000
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Speed up fiscal consolidation, growth bound to follow
Confirming that the Centre would miss its fiscal and revenue deficit targets for 2011-12, the Economic Survey on Thursday called for a rapid fiscal consolidation in order to spur growth and also to prevent
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Budget 2012-13: Economic survey need not play govt views: Pranab
NEW DELHI: "The Economic Survey serves as a vital input for the Budget and the 2011-12 report has 14 new ideas and alternative policy prescriptions," finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Thursday.