Category Archives: Union Budget 2012

Contains budget coverage stories for 2012

A medico writes to the FM

Dear Mr. Finance Minister, I am a Doctor having my private practice. Last year you had given a big relief to people like us in increasing the self assessment limit to Rs.60 lakhs. This has relieved us from a lot of record keeping and fees to auditors. Thank you for this kind gesture. Loans for… Read More »

With love to Pranab from an MBA Grad…

Dear Mr. Finance Minister, as a PG student of Management there are a few requests that I have to place before you for the forthcoming budget. Education Loan For a long time, only professional course students were offered loans by banks. In the last budget you had provided provision for a wider range of courses… Read More »

Highlights of the Railway Budget 2012

The Union Railways Minister Mr. Dinesh Trivedi has presented the Railways Budget for the year 2012 to the parliament today. Having sought blessings from his illustrious predecessors like Mamata Banerjee and Lalu Yadav the minister also claims to have consulted all the members of parliament and CMs of all the states. The budget has been… Read More »

Manmohanomics and Pranomics!

If you are cribbing about your job, people you have to work with, constraints in doing what you have to do – just switch on the TV and you are sure to feel better. There is one unenviable job out there that Mr. Pranab Mukherjee is doing and the rest of the country is up… Read More »

Budget 2012 – Preview

India’s Financial Budget is about to be announced shortly on 16th March 2012. The current financial status of the economy indicates a need for hard stance on economic reforms, but it would not be easy for the government to execute such a plan.  Every sector is expecting from the Finance minister of India to announce… Read More »

What Indian women want from FM this Year

Contrary to the popular belief that women are least concerned about the implications of union budget, this fiscal there has been a steadily rising voice of women from across the nation, airing their demands and expectations from the Union Budget 2012. The budget this year will have some very far reaching implications for women from… Read More »

Education sector awaiting a big push!

There are many innovative and helpful developments in the Indian education sector since the past 4-5 years. Government of India has been putting consistent efforts to strengthen the sector as a whole and to improve the quality by private–public partnerships and through IT based education. In the union budget 2011-2012, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee allocated… Read More »