Union Budget 2021 LIVE Updates: FM Nirmala Sitharaman announces reforms in taxation, no changes in income tax slabs

Budget 2021 LIVE News Updates: Sitharaman announces new scrappage policy - 20 years in case of personal vehicles and 15 years in case of commercial vehicles

The total budget outlay for healthcare is 2.23 lakh crore. This is an increase of 137% from last year, says FM

FM announces Rs 35,000 crore for Covid-19 vaccines

Budget 2021 LIVE Updates: India now has one of the lowest COVID 19 death rates of 112 per million population and one of the lowest active cases of about 130 per million. This has laid the foundation for the economic revival we see today: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Parliament

Budget 2021 LIVE Updates: This Budget will be the first of this new decade. Budget 2021 will also be a digital budget: Finance Minister Nirmala Sithraman

Budget 2021 LIVE Updates: I borrow the words from Rabindranath Tagore, "Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark". In this spirit, I can't help but recall the joy that we as a Cricket loving nation felt after Team India's recent spectacular success in Australia: FM

Union Budget 2021 LIVE Updates: The Government stretched its resources for the benefit of the poorest of the poor. The PM Garib Kalyan Yojana, the three Aatma Nirbhar Bharat packages and subsequent announcements were like five mini-budgets in themselves: FM Nirmala Sitharaman

Union Budget 2021 LIVE Updates: Today India has 2 vaccines available and has begun safeguarding not only her own citizens against COVID 19 but also those of 100 or more countries. It has added comfort to know that 2 ore more vaccines are also expected soon: FM Nirmala Sitharaman

FM announces Aatmanirbhar Bharat package

Aatmanirbhar Bharat package has been announced by the Finance Minister to sustain recovery. In total, three Atmanirbhar packages and RBI measures amounted to over Rs 27 lakh crore or 15% of GDP.

Union Budget 2021 LIVE Updates: The preparation of this Budget was undertaken in circumstances like never before, in view of calamities that have affected a country or a region within a country. But what we have endured with COVID-19 to 2020 is Sui generis: FM Nirmala Sitharaman