Unusual, setting modern India on track Jargons and clichés are out. Budget 2022-23 is a vision document with actions for future India. Giving no space for an election year appeasement, Nirmala Sitharaman enviably presented the Union budget 2022-23, which the otherwise uproarious representatives of people listened in unusual silence. I have watched every budget since 1991 - since the first one presented by Dr Manmohan Singh. Until 2014 every government had coalition compulsions with dictations from State satraps. Budget presentation was a ritual celebrated by a handful of privileged lots. Freebies, subsidies and tax cuts were the yardsticks of budget evaluation. Still, the ghosts haven’t fully disappeared. Hence, there are questions, though not so galore. The budget 2022-23 envisi...
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