[Budget] Himachal Pradesh Budget Highlights 2018-19

• Adoption of BJP ‘Drishtipatra’ as the policy document to guide the development policies of the present Government
• Lowering the age from 80 years to 70 years for providing old age pension to all, without any income limit
• Gudia & Hoshiar Singh helplines and ‘Shakti App’ launched
• New Mukhyamantri “Lok Bhawan (मुख्यमन्त्री लोक भवन)” Scheme launched for constructing Community Bhawan with an outlay of Rs. 30 lakh in every constituency

[Budget] Himachal Pradesh Budget 2017 Highlights

हिमाचल प्रदेश बजट 2017-18 की खास बातें:

– बेरोजगार युवकों को मिलेगा बेरोजगारी भत्ता
– दसवीं और 12वीं पास को मिलेगा 1 हजार प्रति माह
– दिव्यांगों को मिलेगा 1500 रुपए प्रति माह
– 650 स्कूलों में वोकेशनल लोबेरेटरी होगी अपग्रेड

[Economic Survey 2016-17] Highlights Economic Survey 2016-17, Download Economic Survey 2016-17

January 31, 2017:  The survey was prepared by the finance ministry's chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian. Union finance Minister Arun Jaitley tabled the Economic Survey 2016-17 in

[Union Budget 2017-18] Highlights of Union Budget 2017-18

The 2017 Union Budget, presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday, was broadly focused on 10 issues — farming sector, rural population, youth, poor and health care for the

[Himachal Budget] Himachal Pradesh budget 2015-16: Highlights

Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh presented the state budget for the year 2015-16. In his address where he overlooked some of the important issues like Information Technology, he surely assured of providing good governance to the people of Himachal Pradesh.

Main highlights of the Budget

• Practice of obtaining Affidavits for various purposes replaced with Self-Declaration on Plain Paper.

• e-Procurement (e-Tendering) to be extended to more Departments for 100 per cent coverage and

[Union Budget] Highlights of Union budget 2016-17

Finance minister Arun Jaitley presented Union Budget 2016-17 in Parliament on Monday. Here are the key highlights of his speech:

[Railway Budget] Railway Budget 2016-17 Highlights

What are the components of the budget?

Article 112 of the Constitution of India stipulates that Government should lay before the Parliament an Annual Financial Statement popularly referred to as ‘Budget’.

The Railway Budget presented to Parliament, besides the Railway Minister’s Budget speech consists of the following documents –

1. Budget of the Railway Revenue and Expenditure

2. Demands for Grants and detailed Demands for Grants

[Economy] Inside in General Budget 2015 - 2016

There were some big new developments in Saturday’s budget, but the stories emerged from the Budget’s fine print, not the speech in Parliament.

1. The biggest story of this Budget is a major change in the way the Union Government spends its money. Earlier this week, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced that the government had accepted the recommendations of the 14th Finance Commission and raised the States’ share in the net proceeds of union tax revenues from 32 per cent to 42 per cent.

[Budget] Highlights of Railway Budget 2015 - 2016

The key themes of the Budget were in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's initiatives - Swachch Bharat Mission, Make in India and Digital India.

1. The most-expected part about this year's Railway Budget - there is no increase in passsenger rail fares.

2. Rs.8.5 lakh crore will be invested in Railways in next 5 years.

[Budget] Highlights of Union Budget 2015 - 2016

States to be equal partners in economic growth; move to making India cashless society; social sector programmes to continue. Some of the challenges mentioned by the Finance Minister are: poor agricultural income, decline in manufacturing ; and the need for fiscal discipline.

Here are sector-wise highlights:

[Economy] Budget

Budget is an estimate of income and expenditure for a set period of time in India's case it is of a year. It is the detailed implementation plan of the fiscal policy of the State in hard figures and facts and activities to be pursued for executing and implementing the same for socio-economic development of a country by the executive. It is defined as a series of goals with price tags attached. Where a line item is detailed and a price/cost is mentioned next to it.

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[Budget] Union Budget 2014: Highlights

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said he would uphold the fiscal deficit target of 4.1 per cent inherited from the last government, while incremental steps were also announced to boost capital spending and reassure foreign investors that they would get fair treatment.

Here are the highlights of the budget:

[Budget] Railway Budget 2014-15

Highlights of  Railway Budget 2014-15

Bullet train proposed on identified Mumbai-Ahmedabad sector. The railway minister has said that bullet trains are a priority. Other sectors for proposed high speed trains are: Delhi-Agra, Delhi-Chandigarh, Nagpur-Bilaspur, Goa-Mumbai, Chennai-Hyderabad, Delhi-Kanpur and Delhi-Pathankot and Mysore-Bangalore-Chennai, Nagpur-Secundrabad. The trains will run at 160-200 kmph.

[Budget] Interim Budget 2014-15 Key highlights

* Fiscal deficit for current fiscal to be 4.6%

* Revenue deficit estimated at 3% for current fiscal

* 140m people lifted out of poverty in last 10 years

* Excise duty on SUVs cut from 30 to 24%, in large and mid-segment cars from 27-24% to 24-20%

[Notes] Interim Railway Budget 2014-15

Railways Minister Mallikarjun Kharge left train fares and freight rates unchanged on Wednesday, in an interim rail budget ahead of a national election due by May.

[Notes] Himachal Pradesh Budget - 2014

As per budget estimates, total revenue receipts are estimated at Rs 16,522 crore and total revenue expenditure is estimated to be Rs 19,784 crore with a revenue deficit of Rs 3,262 crore. The expected receipts in capital account of the government are Rs 3,860 crore, apart from Rs 1,125 crore in public account including provident fund. Capital expenditure including loan repayments is estimated to be Rs 3,830 crore. The fiscal deficit for 2014-15 is likely to be Rs 5,354.

Himachal Pradesh Budget 2013 Highlights

• Every department in State Government will scrutinize it's Acts, Rules and Guidelines and suggest amendments to simplify the procedures and to make them citizen centric.  

• A State Commissioner (Public Grievances) to be appointed to monitor timely disposal of public grievances.  

• An "Administrative Boundaries Reorganization Commission" will be set up for re-organization of boundaries of administrative units of various departments.