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Union Budget: New pension scheme named Vaysalya proposed for minors

Jul 23, 2024, at 09:50 pm

A new pension scheme named ‘Vatsalya’ has been proposed for minors by Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman in the Union Budget 2024-25 tabled in Parliament on Tuesday.

Union Budget 2019: New Space India Ltd. incorporated to spearhead commercialization of various space products

Jul 05, 2019, at 03:05 pm

New Delhi: Presenting the General Budget 2019-20 in the Parliament today, Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs  Nirmala Sitharaman said that a Public Sector Enterprise viz. New Space India Limited (NSIL) has been incorporated as a new commercial arm of Department of Space to tap the benefits of the Research & Development carried out by ISRO.

Union Budget has quite a few positives to take away: Jaiswal

Feb 07, 2019, at 02:58 pm

Kolkata, Feb 6 (IBNS): Laxman Jaiswal, Chairman & Managing Director, Ascon Indrastructure India Ltd, has said that there were quite a few positives as a take away from the Union Budget presented by the Centre on Feb 1.

Piyush Goyal presents Interim Budget 2019: Live Highlights

Feb 01, 2019, at 11:12 am

New Delhi: Amid expectations of big ticket benefits for India's distressed farmers and tax cuts ahead of elections and Opposition attacks on the Modi government over economic issues, Interim Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday began presenting the Interim Union Budget 2019 in Parliament from 11 am.  

Union Minister Piyush Goyal will present interim budget today

Feb 01, 2019, at 09:36 am

New Delhi: Interim Finance Minister Piyush Goyal will present the Interim Union Budget 2019 in the Parliament today at 11 am. The budget is the last of the Narendra Modi government ahead of elections in few months and there are expectations that the budget will contain an income support scheme for  farmers in distress and tax cuts for salaried people. 

Budget proposals should provide growth impetus to Indian economy: ITC

Feb 02, 2017, at 02:32 am

New Delhi, Feb 1 (IBNS): Y C Deveshwar, Chairman of ITC Limited on Wednesday lauded the Union budget and said it should should provide a growth impetus to the Indian economy and a pickup in consumption demand.

Budget 2017 is progressive which aims at holistic development: SAIL

Feb 02, 2017, at 01:11 am

New Delhi, Feb 1 (IBNS): Steel Authority of India (SAIL) Chairman P K Singh on Wednesday hailed the Centre's general budget and said it aims at "holistic development."

Budget: Govt proposes to establish National Testing Agency

Feb 01, 2017, at 09:21 pm

New Delhi, Feb 1 (IBNS): Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Arun Jaitley while presenting the General Budget 2017-18 in Parliament today said that the Government proposes to establish a National Testing Agency as an autonomous and self-sustained premier testing organization to conduct all entrance examinations for higher education institutions.

Rural, agriculture, allied sectors to get about Rs. 1,87000 crore in the Budget 2017-18 , 24 % higher than the previous year

Feb 01, 2017, at 09:20 pm

New Delhi, Feb 1 (IBNS): Union Finance Minister Jaitley said that the pace of construction of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, (PMGSY) roads has accelerated to reach 133 km roads per day in 2016-17, as against an average of 73 km during the period 2011-2014.

Current Financial Year 2016-17 is not a conventional year as major reformative decisions have been taken: FM

Dec 21, 2016, at 01:30 am

New Delhi, Dec 20 (IBNS): Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that the current Financial Year 2016-17 is not a conventional year as many major reformative decisions have been taken during the year.

Union Budget is commendable as it decouples vision, policy from financial planning: Angel investor

Mar 05, 2016, at 05:15 pm

New Delhi, Mar 2 (IBNS): Ravi Kiran, angel investor and Co-Founder, VentureNursery has said the 2016 Budget, which was presented by Arun Jaitley on Monday is commendable as it decouples vision and policy from financial planning.

Union Budget: With digital literacy,financial literacy should have been clubbed, says AISECT

Mar 03, 2016, at 02:14 am

New Delhi, Mar 2 (IBNS): In response to the allocations for the Banking and Financial Inclusion sectors in Arun Jaitley's Union Budget 2016-17, Abhishek Pandit, Director-Business Services, AISECT, has said that along with digital literacy, financial literacy should also have been clubbed.

Union Budget took positive step regarding skills and digital initiatives: AISECT

Mar 03, 2016, at 01:14 am

New Delhi, Mar 2 (IBNS): In response to provisions on Skills and Digital Initiatives in the Union Budget 2016-17 presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Siddharth Chaturvedi, Director, AISECT, has termed the same as a step in positive direction.

Union Budget ignores non-voting population: CRY

Mar 01, 2016, at 09:34 pm

Kolkata, Mar 1 (IBNS): The 2016-17 Union Budget has considerably increased outlays for the social sector; yet, children remain to be at the margins of policy discussions, interface, and allocations, CRY said.

Dissatisfaction over EPF tax may compel government to consider the decision

Mar 01, 2016, at 07:20 pm

New Delhi, Mar 1 (IBNS) The central government is likely to consider a partial rollback of the Employee Provident Fund (EPF) tax on fund withdrawals proposed in the Union Budget 2016 by finance minister Arun Jaitley on Monday following wide-spread dissatisfaction expressed by the salaried employees, according to media reports.

Govt has made affordable housing national agenda: MB Infrabuild

Mar 01, 2016, at 05:05 am

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IBNS): Simarjit Bhogal, Snr Consultant, MB Infrabuild Pvt Ltd, on Monday said Arun Jaitley's Union Budget has made affordable housing a national agenda with a mandate of 22 million homes by 2022.

Budget 2016-17 has a few very good positive points: Vadilal Industries

Mar 01, 2016, at 04:29 am

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IBNS): Devanshu Gandhi, MD, Vadilal Industries Ltd, on Monday said Arun Jaitley's Budget 2016-17 has a few very good positive points.

Budget promotes affordable housing: NAREDCO

Mar 01, 2016, at 04:18 am

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IBNS): National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO) welcomed the Budget as growth-oriented which will provide impetus to agriculture, infrastructure and rural sector development.

Power2SME says Budget 2016-17 laid emphasis on job creation

Mar 01, 2016, at 04:01 am

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IBNS): R Narayan, Founder and CEO, Power2SME, on Monday said Budget 2016-17 laid special emphasis on job creation and outlined measures to facilitate ease of doing business.

Budget 2016-17 has set direction for inclusive growth: Symphony

Mar 01, 2016, at 03:32 am

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IBNS): Achal Bakeri, CMD, Symphony Ltd on Monday said Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's budget 2016-17 has set the direction for a balanced and inclusive growth.

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.