Union Budget 2018 Live Update, Arun Jaitley presenting 2018-19 Budget Live Streaming Full Speech

Emoluments of President, Vice-President and governors will be revised to Rs 5 lakh, 4 lakh and 3.5 lakh respectively Budget-2018

I think medium salaried class don't want Modi government to continue in 2019. Disappointed by budget 2018.

Government insurance companies to be merged into a single entity, and subsequently listed in the stock exchange, as part of the disinvestment programme.

Women’s contribution reduced to 8.33% towards PF in the first 3 years for new EPF accounts.

'Govt's budget for health, education and social security increased to Rs 1.38 lakh crore for 2018-19 from Rs 1.22 lakh crore in current fiscal' : FM

Govt's budget for health, education and social security increased to Rs 1.38 lakh crore for 2018-19 from Rs 1.22 lakh crore in current fiscal: FM Arun Jaitley.

INDIA BUDGET: CONFIDENT TO COMPLETE CONSTRUCTION OF 9,000 KM OF HIGHWAYS THIS FY, NHAI TO CONSIDER ORGANISING ROAD ASSETS INTO SPECIAL PURPOSE VEHICLE

Allocation for SC welfare - Rs. 56,619 cr and Rs. 39,135 cr for ST welfare

It's a socio-economic welfare budget so far.

1 medical college amongst 3 LS seats.

FM proposes major plan in budget speech to move towards Universal Healthcare that is tipped to benefit 50 crore people.

FM Arun Jaitley announces World largest healthcare schemes with Rs 5 lakh cover for per family

LAUNCHING FLAGSHIP NATIONAL HEALTH PROTECTION SCHEME TO PROTECT 100 MLN POOR FAMILIES #Apollo shares rising +4%

When there's something in Budget for poors and farmers Budget speech turns into Hindi.

Agricultural credit target increased to Rs 11 trillion from Rs 10 trillion last year: FM @arunjaitley says in his budget speech.  So far, its all about the farmers.

BUDGET 2018 : To Allocate Rs 10,000 Cr To Fund Animal Husbandry Sector

Initial focus of budget speech to support agriculture. Benefits from farmers to agricultural exports

1) Arvind ltd

2) Ashokleyland

3) Bel

4) Emami 

5) Sadbhav engg

Indian economy is on course to achieve high growth of 8 %. Economy to grow at 7.2-7.5% in second half of 2018-19: FM

This year’s budget will focus on agriculture, infrastructure, taking care of senior citizens’: Arun Jaitley

Switching from English to Hindi during budget speech is annoying. Jaitley must realise Hindi is not the language of the majority.

CNBC hunch that the budget speech will be in Hindi was absolute wrong, the FM started in English.

Can't say what's in the budget, but it certainly has to be shorter as the FM doesn't have to read out changes in goods & sevices taxes anymore thanks to GST. Maybe a few more minutes to trains though. 

Income tax, 5 more things that will be most tracked in FM’s Jaitley’s speech

Fiscal Deficit

LTCG

Corporate tax

Individual Income tax

Benefits

Agriculture

Two Finance Minister R Venkatraman and Pranab Mukherjee became Presidents after serving as Finance Minister.

Till 2000, the Budget used to be presented at 5 PM. From 2001, the budget presentation timing changed to 11 Am.

If BJP manages to deliver an ok budget and retains at least 2 seats in Rajasthan bypoll it will be a tough night on TV and in the newspaper edit room. If it is otherwise, the epitah of BJP will be written.

Nothing new in this budget. This is the election-friendly budget. No vision for the country. The middle class is feeling cheated. 

- Congress On Budget

People who don’t understand Budget, let me make it easy for you : 

If Congress, AAP, Sagarika, Rajdeep, Rana & NDTV start criticising, it means that government has done a good job.

If budget is not good::

Modi govt failed again

Budget disappoints common man

Expectations let down

If Budget is Good::

It was with an eye on elections. 

It was appeasement of Middle class and farmers to gain votes.

The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations. #Budget2018

Irrespective of what's in the Budget, the post Budget reactions will be:

Opposition - Anti Poor, Anti Dalit, Anti Farmer, Lacks vision, Pro Rich

BJP/NDA - Pro Poor, Pro Dalit, Pro Farmer, Visionary

Prime Minister Narendra Modi seemed to have already lowered expectations of mass voter swaying announcements when he indicated that the Budget may not be resort to populism and that it was a myth that common man wants sop.

Now all eyes on @arunjaitley to bring Middle-class friendly budget give Janta what they want specially this time like Reduce Tax/ease in IT Farmers MNP/ let's hope for the best

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets." - Thomas Sowell

most awaited Budget 2018-19 will be submitted in an hour (11 AM)