Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley must be an honest person. Which is why Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose him to guard the treasury of India and appropriate it for the good of the nation depending upon the need of different welfare and infrastructural projects and bring ache din that Modi had promised for we Indians…
National Health Protection Scheme roll out likely on Oct. 2
February 3, 2018New Delhi: The Union Government is likely to pay an annual premium of less than Rs.1,200 per family for the ambitious National Health Protection Scheme, for which approximately Rs.12,000 crore is required every year. For 2018-19, the Government has made an initial provision of Rs.2,000 crore and an extra Rs.800 crore is expected from the…
Union Budget 2018: No change in personal Income Tax rates
February 1, 2018New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the Union Budget 2018 in Parliament this morning. Continuing with the trend from last year, the Railway Budget was included in the General Budget, scrapping a century-old tradition of having a separate Budget for the Railways. This is the last full-fledged Budget of the Government led by Prime…
Union Budget for 2018-19 to be presented tomorrow
January 31, 2018New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will present the Union Budget for the year 2018-2019, the last regular Budget under the Narendra Modi Government tomorrow. The Budget presentation will commence at 11 am. Till 2016, the budget was presented on the last working day of February by the Finance Minister. The budget, which is presented…
Union Budget Session from January 29
January 6, 2018New Delhi: The Budget Session of Parliament will take place from Jan.29 to Feb.9 while the Union Budget will be presented on Feb.1, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar said yesterday. The first phase of the Session will be from Jan.29 to Feb.9. After a recess, Parliament will meet again from Mar.5 to Apr.6, Kumar told…
Special midnight Parliament session to mark GST launch on June 30
June 20, 2017New Delhi: The national Goods and Services Tax or GST will be launched on the midnight of June 30 at a special Parliament session, said Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, this morning. President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and two of his predecessors – Dr. Manmohan Singh and H.D Deve Gowda, will be on…
States keen on farmer loan waiver should generate funds from their own resources: Jaitley
June 13, 2017New Delhi: Amid a nationwide unrest among farmers demanding a blanket waiving off their bank loans, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley yesterday said that the States that are keen on granting such loan waivers should arrange funds from their own resources. Jaitley’s comment comes after Maharashtra Government announced a total loan waiver for farmers in the…
Kudos to Arun Jaitley
February 9, 2017Sir, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has done a commendable job by limiting cash donations to political parties. This is one of the main sources of black money in the country. Kickbacks for political favours is rampant and every politician, irrespective of political affiliation is a crorepati these days which, majority of them hardly reveal. Payment…
How come Jaitley’s imaginative budget left a slot for anonymous black money to thrive?
February 7, 2017How predictable we are! Come rain or sunshine, we evaluate budgets strictly along party lines. Introduce a dream budget that guarantees benefits for all and, if it is a Congress budget, the BJP will condemn it as anti-people; if it is presented by a BJP Government, the Congress will reject it as worthless. Polarisation is…
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