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Photos: India reacts to Union budget 2018

A round-up in portraits of the reactions of a cross-section of India, to the budget tabled by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Parliament yesterday.

Updated on: Feb 02, 2018 3:12 PM IST

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Malu Treeza Thomas, 25, a nurse from Kerala, says this budget is a mixed bag. She is happy that major emphasis is on the health sector. “Tax payer’s money is rightly used for new national health scheme and 24 new medical colleges will provide enough job opportunities for medical staff. But there were no major announcements for job creation, no establishment for AIIMS in Kerala and small savings of common man remains unattractive,” she said. (Vivek R Nair / HT Photo)

Updated on Feb 02, 2018 3:12 PM

Malu Treeza Thomas, 25, a nurse from Kerala, says this budget is a mixed bag. She is happy that major emphasis is on the health sector. “Tax payer’s money is rightly used for new national health scheme and 24 new medical colleges will provide enough job opportunities for medical staff. But there were no major announcements for job creation, no establishment for AIIMS in Kerala and small savings of common man remains unattractive,” she said. (Vivek R Nair / HT Photo)

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CEO and MD of Luxurion.com Vinod Gupta, 40, is happy with the allocation of Rs 7148 crore to textiles which will help the sector compete globally. The doubling of the Digital India scheme spend and 5 lakh Wi-fi hotspots will in increase digital penetration and the allocation to Mudra Yojana will help MSMEs expand. He would have preferred incentives on e-commerce and clarity on regulations for international business. (Anshuman Poyrekar / HT Photo)

Updated on Feb 02, 2018 3:12 PM

CEO and MD of Luxurion.com Vinod Gupta, 40, is happy with the allocation of Rs 7148 crore to textiles which will help the sector compete globally. The doubling of the Digital India scheme spend and 5 lakh Wi-fi hotspots will in increase digital penetration and the allocation to Mudra Yojana will help MSMEs expand. He would have preferred incentives on e-commerce and clarity on regulations for international business. (Anshuman Poyrekar / HT Photo)

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Nikita Jain, 34, Corporate Communications personnel from Mumbai believes better transportation and infrastructure will prove to be a relief. She feels, “it’s a budget for common person” and looks forward to big changes through the health-care provisions. But as a salaried professional she also hoped to see relaxations related to taxation and this budget didn’t bring any respite. (Satish Bate / HT Photo)

Updated on Feb 02, 2018 3:12 PM

Nikita Jain, 34, Corporate Communications personnel from Mumbai believes better transportation and infrastructure will prove to be a relief. She feels, “it’s a budget for common person” and looks forward to big changes through the health-care provisions. But as a salaried professional she also hoped to see relaxations related to taxation and this budget didn’t bring any respite. (Satish Bate / HT Photo)

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Satyam Kumar, 22, a student at Delhi School of Economics, is disappointed that not much was said about employment. He liked that, “primary focus of the budget was on the agricultural and rural economy.” According to Kumar, “the Eklavya schools and an integrated B.Ed. programme is a good step in education sector but more investment on primary and secondary school education is needed rather than usual focus on higher education, that too engineering and medicine.” (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)

Updated on Feb 02, 2018 3:12 PM

Satyam Kumar, 22, a student at Delhi School of Economics, is disappointed that not much was said about employment. He liked that, “primary focus of the budget was on the agricultural and rural economy.” According to Kumar, “the Eklavya schools and an integrated B.Ed. programme is a good step in education sector but more investment on primary and secondary school education is needed rather than usual focus on higher education, that too engineering and medicine.” (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)

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Indrajit Narayan, an artist and educator from Kolkata shared that, “the budget makes no difference for me since it has not shown anything positive for individual taxpayers.” According to him the positives of this budget are, “increased agriculture credit target, new programme Operation Green, standard deduction of Rs 40,000 while computing personal income tax and relief to senior citizens in earnings.” (Samir Jana / HT Photo)

Updated on Feb 02, 2018 3:12 PM

Indrajit Narayan, an artist and educator from Kolkata shared that, “the budget makes no difference for me since it has not shown anything positive for individual taxpayers.” According to him the positives of this budget are, “increased agriculture credit target, new programme Operation Green, standard deduction of Rs 40,000 while computing personal income tax and relief to senior citizens in earnings.” (Samir Jana / HT Photo)

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A project manager in Wipro, Bengaluru, 23-year-old Sumanth Damarla says the “schemes are futuristic and are not focused for current year.” He liked the focus on Digital India, Ekalavya schools and facilities for B.Tech students to pursue PHD in IIT and IISc. But he said, “budget didn’t address the issue of removal of differential tax between domestic and foreign investors, no exemption for Minimum Alternative Tax and no comprehensive review of foreign tax credit norms.” (HT Photo)

Updated on Feb 02, 2018 3:12 PM

A project manager in Wipro, Bengaluru, 23-year-old Sumanth Damarla says the “schemes are futuristic and are not focused for current year.” He liked the focus on Digital India, Ekalavya schools and facilities for B.Tech students to pursue PHD in IIT and IISc. But he said, “budget didn’t address the issue of removal of differential tax between domestic and foreign investors, no exemption for Minimum Alternative Tax and no comprehensive review of foreign tax credit norms.” (HT Photo)

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Jaswinder Singh Sangha, 65, a farmer in Punjab says that the focus on the farm sector is good but the credit limit increase will help big farmers over the smaller ones under debt. The initiatives towards e-mandis and increase of 50% in MSP on wheat and paddy will bring respite but a lack of initiatives for perishable agricultural produce and to compensate farmers over demonetisation is still felt. (Pradeep Pandit / HT Photo)

Updated on Feb 02, 2018 3:12 PM

Jaswinder Singh Sangha, 65, a farmer in Punjab says that the focus on the farm sector is good but the credit limit increase will help big farmers over the smaller ones under debt. The initiatives towards e-mandis and increase of 50% in MSP on wheat and paddy will bring respite but a lack of initiatives for perishable agricultural produce and to compensate farmers over demonetisation is still felt. (Pradeep Pandit / HT Photo)

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Jeweller Vummidi Prashant, 45, from Chennai feels, “this is more like an election budget with focus on farm sector and farmers as there is not much for small business like ours which has suffered because of demonetisation.” He likes that the UDAN scheme has got much needed attention along with rural infrastructure and the health sector. But he is disappointed the budget completely missed giving any benefit of reduction in custom duties on gold. (HT Photo)

Updated on Feb 02, 2018 3:12 PM

Jeweller Vummidi Prashant, 45, from Chennai feels, “this is more like an election budget with focus on farm sector and farmers as there is not much for small business like ours which has suffered because of demonetisation.” He likes that the UDAN scheme has got much needed attention along with rural infrastructure and the health sector. But he is disappointed the budget completely missed giving any benefit of reduction in custom duties on gold. (HT Photo)

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