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Arun Jaitley presents pro-poor, pro-rural Budget for 2016-17

Feb 29, 2016, at 10:23 pm

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IBNS) Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday presented the Union Budget 2016 focusing on rural development and farm and social sector along with infrastructure with analysts terming it a pro-poor, pro-agriculture move that throws a challenge to the government to implement in reality.

Union Budget 2016: Proposed reforms in FDI policy

Feb 29, 2016, at 10:05 pm

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IBNS) Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, while presenting the Union Budget 2016 on Monday, said reforms in foreign direct investment (FDI) policy in areas of insurance and pensions, asset reconstruction companies and stock exchanges have been proposed.

Union Budget: Companies Act 2013 to be amended to facilitate ease of doing business

Feb 29, 2016, at 09:27 pm

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IBNS) Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, while presenting the Union Budget 2016 on Monday, said a Bill shall be introduced in the 2016 Budget session of the Parliament to amend the Companies Act 2013.

Zoctr Healthcare welcomes Union Budget

Feb 29, 2016, at 09:18 pm

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IBNS) Zoctr Healthcare CEO Nidhi Saxena said the Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's proposals to deepen access to healthcare in underserved areas is commendable in the Union Budget is 'commendable'.

Union Budget 2016: Government aims to double farmers' income by 2022

Feb 29, 2016, at 08:50 pm

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IBNS) Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, while presenting the Union Budget 2016 on Monday, said the central Government intends to go beyond food security and give back a sense of income security to Indian farmers.

Union Budget 2016: Corpus of Rs 900 crores for Price Stabilisation Fund

Feb 29, 2016, at 08:46 pm

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IBNS) Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, while presenting the Union Budget 2016 on Monday, said that monitoring of prices of essential commodities is a key element of good governance.

Union Budget 2016: Proposed benefits for pensioners

Feb 29, 2016, at 08:30 pm

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IBNS) Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, while presenting the Union Budget 2016 on Monday, proposed several schemes for pensioners, including withdrawal up to 40% of the corpus at the time of retirement tax exempt in the case of National Pension Scheme(NPS).

Union Budget 2016: Announcement of relief for small tax payers and others

Feb 29, 2016, at 08:22 pm

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IBNS) Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday presented the Union Budget 2016 where he said he would like to give relief to small tax payers and proposed to raise the ceiling of tax rebate under Section 87A of IT Act to Rs 5,000 from Rs 2,000 for individuals with income less than Rs 5 lakhs.

Arun Jaitley presents "pro-poor" Union Budget focusing on farm, villages and roads

Feb 29, 2016, at 06:45 pm

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IBNS): Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday presented the Union Budget 2016 focusing on rural development and farm and social sector while offering some relief to tax payers as analysts see it as a pro-poor budget with big ideas which is a challenge for the government to implement.

Budget Highlights: Jaitley focuses on road infrastructure

Feb 29, 2016, at 05:27 pm

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IBNS) Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday presenting the Union Budget 2016 said Rs 97,000 crore will be allocated for road infrastructure.