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"In the field of indirect taxation, we are in process of creating history by bringing most important indirect tax reform -- the GST," Jaitley said. (PTI file Photo)
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A bystander watches a digital screen showing finance minister Arun Jaitley delivering his Budget speech at Parliament in New Delhi. (AFP photo)
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Union finance minister Arun Jaitley presenting the Union Budget 2015-16 at the Lok Sabha in New Delhi. (PTI photo)
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India will abolish wealth tax and replace it with an additional 2% surcharge on the country's super rich, finance minister Arun Jaitley said on Saturday, when presenting the government's full-year budget. (Mohd Zakir/HT Photo)
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A vendor waits alonside his cart filled with vegetables at the wholesale market in Mumbai. The Modi government unveiled its first full budget, a day after announcing the time was ripe for long-awaited reforms to kickstart the economy. (AFP photo)
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A labourer stacks bricks on his head at the construction site in Kolkata. FM Arun Jaitley announced a budget aimed at high growth, saying the pace of cutting the fiscal deficit would slow as he seeks to boost investment and ensure that ordinary people benefit. (Reuters photo)
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A labourer works in a tobacco field on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. FM Arun Jaitley came down heavily on smokers and tobacco consumers with a steep increase in excise rate in tax proposals in his budget for 2015-16. (Reuters photo)
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Labourers unload sacks of vegetables from a truck at a wholesale market as he waits for vegetables to be loaded, in Kolkata. The budget for 2015 was announced, promising a slew of measures that attempt to balance welfare spending with high economic growth and infrastructure development, while vowing to keep a tight control on fiscal deficit. (AP photo)
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Onlookers watch the share prices on a display board at the BSE building in Mumbai during the Union budget 2015-16 presentation in the Lok Sabha. (PTI photo)
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President Pranab Mukherjee with finance minister Arun Jaitley and MoS Jayant Sinha at Rashtrapati Bhavan before presentation of the Union budget in Lok Sabha in New Delhi. (PTI photo)
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Sensex and Nifty rode a roller-coaster when the budget for 2015 was presented, and they ended the day higher. (PTI photo)
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Farmers listen to the Union budget 2015-16 speech on radio at a village in South Dinajpur district of West Bengal. (PTI photo)
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Vegetable vendors listen to the Union budget 2015-16 speech on a radio set in Moradabad. (PTI photo)
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Jaitley arrives at Parliament. This is Modi government's first full-fledged budget. (Mohd Zakir/HT Photo)
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Finance minister Arun Jaitley holding budget papers and his MOS Jyant Sinha (R) with finance secretaries leaving his office for the Parliament.(Mohd Zakir/HT Photo)
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A sniffer dog checks the Union Budget 2015 - 2016 documents to be unveiled by finance minister Arun Jaitley in the Parliament. (AFP Photo)
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People watch Arun Jaitley presenting the budget in Chandigarh. (Reuters)
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