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140 million people out of poverty, claims the finance minister

Rs 2,46,397 crore allocated for food, fertilizer and fuel subsidy.

No change in tax laws, but changes in indirect taxes.

Excise duty reduced to 10 per cent.

Excise duty on small cars reduced to 8 per cent

Excise duty on SuVs reduced to 28 per cent.

Appeals all parties to pass tax reforms such as GST

Bankers assure me that as economy turns they can control Non-Performing Assets: FM

I'm disappointed that Insurance Bill not passed by Parliament for reasons nothing to do with the content of the Bill: Chidambaram

We must rebuild our infrastructure. PPP model must be more widely used.

Focus on manufacturing and manufacturing exports.

All taxes for exports should be waived

Subsidies must go only to the most deserving

India to become third largest economy after US and China. Chidambaram created 10 point agenda.

Populist move on student loans. Rs.2,600 crore in interest to be waived on outstanding loans taken by students upto March 31, 2009 Moratorium declared on these loans.

Raghuvir Srinivasan says : Second clue of how fiscal deficit was contained: Rs.35,000 crore of fuel subsidy rolled over the next fiscal year. This is financial engineering.

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare gets Rs. 33,725 cr

Ministry of HRD gets Rs. 67,398 cr

Drinking water and sanitation ministry gets Rs. 15,260 cr; Social Justice and Empowerment gets Rs. 6730 cr

For Ministry of Housing and Poverty Alleviation- Rs. 6000 crore; Rs. 21,000 cr to Ministry of Women and Child Development

Budgetary support to railways has been increased to Rs. 29,000 crore. Railways need to mobilise support through market borrowing

Raghuvir Srinivasan says: Subsidy bill main cause for increase in non-Plan expenditure this fiscal

Government announces one-rank-one-pension scheme for defence personnel from 2015

Rs 2,46, 397 crore for subsidies

Rs. 1,16,000 crore allocated for food subsidy

Defence allocation enhanced by 10 per cent.

Raghuvir Srinivasan: A further allocation of Rs.1,000 crore to the Nirbhaya Fund. Seems to be political move. How was last year's allocation used? No information.

Raghuvir Srinivasan: First hint of how the fiscal deficit was contained Plan expenditure in current fiscal down, says FM though non-plan expenditure overshot target

Eight national manufacturing zones have been approved along the Delhi-Mumbai corridor

Sugar is fully decontrolled, gradual decontrol of diesel prices, discoms, mostly sick, are restructured

Government fully committed to Aadhaar

National Skill development trust to get additonal Rs 1000 crores

Direct Benefit Transfer to be rolled out throughout the country

Seven nuclear power reactors under construction.

Four ultra mega solar pojects to come up under National Solar Mission

Rs. 100 crore as corpus for solar mission.

Govt. has approved National agro-forestry policy

Meanwhile, sensex wipes out inital gains after the budget speech began

Rs 1200 crore additional assistance to NE states, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

Health allocation has also been increased

Today we have more than 3.9 lakhs of rural roads

Central govt's expenditure Rs. 79,541 crore on education

The installed power capacity has been augmented.

The UPA's govt's record in growth is unparalleled. We produced 263 mt of foodgrains. 554 million tonne year of coal production.

I can confidently assert that the FD is declining, the CAD is constrained, inflation is moderated; exchange rate is stable

67 per cent population covered under Nation Food Security Act.

Chidambaram narrates India's growth story in 10 years. Rejects the arguments of policy paralysis. How much of it was in UPA II, asks Raghuvir Srinivasan.

Business Editor Raghuvir Srinivasan asks: We have to wait for details on how the FM has managed to keep the fiscal deficit well below his "red-line"?

Govt took the bold step to step up the CCI and the project monitoring group to hasten projects

Agri GDP growth increased to 4% during UPA II; in the current year it is estimated at 4.6%

Manufacturing is India's Achilles heel, says the finance minister

Exports recovery sharp, and imports are down: Chidambaram

Business Editor Raghuvir Srinivasan says: FM manages to keep his promise on fiscal deficit, but at what cost?

$15 billion expected to be added to our foreign exchange reserves by end of this fiscal year.

Fiscal deficit will be contained to 4.6 per cent of GDP.

CAD will be contained to USD 48 billion.

Speaker Meira Kumar appeals to agitating Andhra Pradesh MPs not to disrupt the House. "Please come to my chamber, I will try to sort it out," she says.

FY 2012-13 was the year of turbulence: Chidambaram

Finance Minister presents interim budget; Andhra Pradesh MPs raise slogans.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath says, "If House is disrupted, Chidambaram can make statement on any TV."

Lok Sabha session begins

This year, of course, there will not be a regular budget, but only a vote on account on February 17.

The purpose of the advance estimate is to give the Finance Minister some insight into the current state of the economy and, therefore, help in the Union Budget formulation.

At a 4.9 per cent rate, the economy would be posting a below 5 per cent growth for the second year in a row.

Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram will present vote on account at 11 a.m. on Monday

Keywords: vote-on-account, interim budget, budget highlights


Vote-on-account highlights - The Hindu
 
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thanks dear .. good thread...
can we discuss pint by point
-Fm says 140 mil people out of poverty,.. but his govt disapprove planing commission poverty deadline .. so on what figures FM says that .. that too in house
 
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Indian Finance Min allocates 1,000 crore rupees for the Nirbhaya Fund.

What happening to last year's 1,000 crore?

It hasn't been spent.
 
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thanks dear .. good thread...
can we discuss pint by point
-Fm says 140 mil people out of poverty,.. but his govt disapprove planing commission poverty deadline .. so on what figures FM says that .. that too in house
Where does it say 140 million lifted out of poverty??
 
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this line looked interesting to me..any comments??

gradual decontrol of diesel prices, discoms, mostly sick, are restructured
 
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Can someone tell me how much we are spending on R and D??
 
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