Union Budget 2021: Full textual content of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s speech

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has offered the Union Budget 2021-22 in Parliament. In important adjustments to the taxation course of, Sitharaman introduced the scrapping of revenue tax for senior residents below sure circumstances, new guidelines for removing of double taxation for NRIs, and a discount within the time interval of tax assessments amongst different measures.
During her speech, Sitharaman additionally introduced a complete spend of round Rs 2 lakh crore on healthcare, Rs 35,000 crore for the Covid-19 vaccine, Rs 1.10 lakh crore outlay for railways and mentioned the federal government goals to finish 11,000 km of nationwide freeway infrastructure this yr. The finances for 2021-22, in the meantime, imposed a Rs 2.5 per litre agri infra cess on petrol and Rs 4 on diesel.
Here is the total textual content of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Union Budget 2021 speech
Full textual content of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s speech by The Indian Express on Scribd