Jaitley’s 10 Key themes on which Budget focuses and 3 major reforms that Budget introduces

New Delhi, Feb 1 (KNN) In his Budget Speech, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley highlighted 10 key themes on which his financial statement is focused.

These themes are –

Doubling income of farmers, push for rural population in the form of better infrastructure and employment, youth in the form of education and jobs, poor, infrastructure, financial sector, digital economy, public services, prudent fiscal management, tax administration for the honest.

According to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, this year’s Budget introduces 3 major reforms that are aimed at betterment of the Indian economy.

He highlighted the advancement of Union Budget 2017 to February 1, merger of Railway Budget with the main Budget and doing away with plan and non-plan expenditure.

FM Jaitley began his Budget 2017 speech by saying, “I raise on the occasion of this auspicious day of Basant Panchmi to present the Union Budget 2017-2018. Spring is a season of optimism,” he said.