Details of Interim Budget 2019
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see article.
Pre-budget thoughts
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A. Key proposals
1. Raise income tax thresholds
2. Universal social security ph 1 (min pensions & health)
3. Extend Ayushman Bharat (health insurance) to next tier up the income scale
4. Launch proposed 14 Employment Zones under the port-led development with Rs 1 lakh cr incentive to create jobs
5. Other job creation programmes, eg. skills development, export incentives.
6. Farming:
i) Income benefit for farmers perhaps as part of MGNREGA
ii) Major expansion of post-harvest farm infra, value chains & food processing
iii) Funds for irrigation and river-linking projects
B. Other proposals
1. Adequate funding for defence acquisitions
2. Ease of doing business
3. Higher education and Research & Development
4. Incentives for entrepreneurs in emerging sectors for recruiting workers
5. New smart cities mission
6. Funds for semi-bullet trains, air transport to Tier 2 & 3 cities.
7. Launch Bharatmala ph 2 and new waterways projects
8. Environment programmes
i) Green energy
ii) Green mobility
iii) National rivers cleaning & STPs
iv) Water recycling
v) Solid waste collection and segregation
vi) Waste to wealth
vii) Pollution control
============
see article.
Pre-budget thoughts
=============
A. Key proposals
1. Raise income tax thresholds
2. Universal social security ph 1 (min pensions & health)
3. Extend Ayushman Bharat (health insurance) to next tier up the income scale
4. Launch proposed 14 Employment Zones under the port-led development with Rs 1 lakh cr incentive to create jobs
5. Other job creation programmes, eg. skills development, export incentives.
6. Farming:
i) Income benefit for farmers perhaps as part of MGNREGA
ii) Major expansion of post-harvest farm infra, value chains & food processing
iii) Funds for irrigation and river-linking projects
B. Other proposals
1. Adequate funding for defence acquisitions
2. Ease of doing business
3. Higher education and Research & Development
4. Incentives for entrepreneurs in emerging sectors for recruiting workers
5. New smart cities mission
6. Funds for semi-bullet trains, air transport to Tier 2 & 3 cities.
7. Launch Bharatmala ph 2 and new waterways projects
8. Environment programmes
i) Green energy
ii) Green mobility
iii) National rivers cleaning & STPs
iv) Water recycling
v) Solid waste collection and segregation
vi) Waste to wealth
vii) Pollution control
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