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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the interim budget for 2024-25 on Thursday. In this, many important announcements were made for women, farmers, employed people and businessmen. Apart from this, the government has also made important announcements for students, laborers, defense sector, space research and innovation sector.
Whether you are a common man, a farmer, a businessman, a student or a housewife, if you want to understand in simple language what the government has given you in this interim budget, then you can understand here.
You will get all the answers to your questions in the 10 links given below.
1. Budget of 2024 in 24 points: No change in tax, up to 300 units of free electricity to one crore families.
This is the second interim budget of the Modi government. This time the budget speech of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was of a short duration, but many big and small announcements were made in it. Here we are telling these important things in 24 points. These contain some statistics and some important policy decisions, which may impact you. Read the full news…
2. What did the common people get, what became cheap and what became expensive?
This time nothing has been cheap or expensive in the budget. Why so? This is because after the GST implemented in 2017, only custom duty and excise duty are increased or decreased in the budget, which affects only a few things. So this time the government has not made any changes in custom duty or excise duty. Read the full news…
3. What did the employed people get?
The government has not given any relief in income tax to the common man in the interim budget. If you choose the old tax regime, your income up to Rs 2.5 lakh will still remain tax free. However, under Section 87A of the Income Tax Act, you can save tax on income up to Rs 5 lakh. Read the full news…
4. What did the farmers get?
Before the Lok Sabha elections, the Modi government has not made any special announcements for the farmers in the interim budget. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that Nano DAP will be used on crops. Apart from this, good work will be done in the field of dairy development and milk farmers will be promoted. The government has also not increased the scope of Minimum Support Price (MSP). Read the full news…
5. What did the women get?
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that all Asha workers and Anganwadi workers will be brought under the ambit of Ayushman Bharat scheme. Under the Lakhpati Didi scheme, 3 crore Lakhpati Didis will be created. 2 crore houses will be built in the coming 5 years. Under the housing scheme, 70% of the houses are in the names of women. Read the full news…
6. What did the students get?
In the budget speech, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that this interim budget focuses on 4 sectors. Poor, women, youth and Annadata. A committee will be formed to link hospitals with medical colleges for the field of education and employment. A corpus of Rs 1 lakh crore will be created. This corpus will provide interest free loan for 50 years. Read the full news…
7. What did the infrastructure get?
A big announcement was made for the infrastructure sector in the interim budget. Apart from the railway corridor being built to transport goods, it was also announced to build energy and cement corridor, port connectivity corridor and high density corridor. Apart from this, it was announced to make 40 thousand coaches of Railways of Vande Bharat Standard. Read the full news…
8. What did the defense sector get?
The Central Government has given Rs 6.2 lakh crore for expenditure on defense in the interim budget. This has increased by only Rs 0.27 lakh crore compared to last year. The government had given Rs 5.93 lakh crore for the defense budget last year. 8% of the total budget for the financial year 2024-25 is being spent on defence. Read the full news…
9. Budget Responses
BJP leaders praised PM Modi’s leadership regarding the interim budget. The Defense Minister said that good indications have been received from the interim budget. At the same time, the opposition seems unhappy with the budget. Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said that the budget was just made with big words and nothing concrete came out of it. Read the full news…
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