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Highlights of Union Budget 2015

States to be equal partners in economic growth; move to making India cashless society; social sector programmes to continue. Some of the challenges mentioned by the Finance Minister are: poor agricultural income, decline in manufacturing ; and the need for fiscal discipline.

Here are sector-wise highlights:

TAXATION

1	Abolition of Wealth Tax.
2	Additional 2% surcharge for the super rich with income of over Rs. 1 crore.
3	Rate of corporate tax to be reduced to 25% over next four years.
4	Total exemption of up to Rs. 4,44,200 can be achieved.
5	100% exemption for contribution to Swachch Bharat, apart from CSR.
6	Service tax increased to14 per cent.

AGRICULTURE

1	Rs. 25,000 crore for Rural Infrastructure Development Bank.
2	Rs. 5,300 crore to support Micro Irrigation Programme.
3	Farmers credit - target of 8.5 lakh crore.

INFRASTRUCTURE

1	Rs. 70,000 crores to Infrastructure sector.
2	Tax-free bonds for projects in rail road and irrigation
3	PPP model for infrastructure development to be revitalised and govt. to bear majority of the risk.
4	Rs. 150 crore allocated for Research & Development
5	NITI to be established and involvement of entrepreneurs, researchers to foster scientific innovations.
6	Govt. proposes to set up 5 ultra mega power projects, each of 4000MW.

EDUCATION

1	AIIMS in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar and Assam.
2	IIT in Karnataka; Indian Institute of Mines in Dhanbad to be upgraded to IIT.
3	PG institute of Horticulture in Armtisar.
4	Kerala to have University of Disability Studies
5	Centre of film production, animation and gaming to come up in Arunachal Pradesh.
6	IIM for Jammu and Kashmir and Andhra Pradesh.

DEFENCE

1	Rs. 2,46,726 crore for Defence.
2	Focus on Make in India for quick manufacturing of Defence equipment.

WELFARE SCHEMES

1	50,000 toilets constructed under Swachh Bharath Abhiyan.
2	Two other programmes to be introduced- GST & JAM Trinity. GST will be implemented by April 2016.
3	MUDRA bank will refinance micro finance orgs. to encourage first generation SC/ST entrepreneurs.
4	Housing for all by 2020.
5	Upgradation 80,000 secondary schools.
6	DBT will be further be expanded from 1 crore to 10.3 crore.
7	For the Atal Pension Yojna, govt. will contribute 50% of the premium limited to Rs. 1000 a year.
8	New scheme for physical aids and assisted living devices for people aged over 80 .
9	Govt to use Rs. 9000 crore unclaimed funds in PPF/EPF for Senior Citizens Fund.
10	Rs. 5,000 crore additional allocation for MGNREGA.
11	Govt. to create universal social security system for all Indians.

RENEWABLE ENERGY

1	Rs. 75 crore for electric cars production.
2	Renewable energy target for 2022: 100K MW in solar; 60K MW in wind; 10K MW in biomass and 5K MW in small hydro

TOURISM

1	Develpoment schemes for churches and convents in old Goa; Hampi, Elephanta caves, Forests of Rajasthan, Leh palace, Varanasi , Jallianwala Bagh, Qutb Shahi tombs at Hyderabad to be under the new toursim scheme.
2	Visa on Arrival for 150 countries

 

 

 

As it happened: Union Budget 2015

12.33 p.m.: The Finance Minister tables the Union Budget, Statement of Receipts and Expenditure and the Finance Bill in Parliament after completing his speech.

12.32 p.m.: DTC - No merit in going ahead with Direct tax Code as it exists today. Net impact of tax proposals Rs. 15,068 crore.

12.31 p.m.: Yoga - included under charitable activites.

12.30 p.m.: Indiviual taxpayer can get benefits up to Rs. 4,44,200.

12.29 p.m.: Transport allowance exemption to be increased to Rs. 1,600 per month.

12.28 p.m.: Rs. 50,000 contribution to new pension scheme. "To make India a pensioned society."

12.27 p.m.: Additional deduction of Rs. 25,000 for differently abled persons.

12.26 p.m.: Increase in limit of deduction of health insurance premium of Rs. 15,000 to Rs. 25,000. For senior citizens, limit will be Rs. 30,000. Very senior citizens - Rs. 30,000 deduction on expenses incurred.

12.25 p.m.: 2 per cent cess on services for Swachch Bharat.

12.24 p.m.: 100 per cent deduction for contribution to Swachch Bharat and Clean Ganga schemes.

12.23 p.m.: Service Tax rate increased to 14 per cent.

12.22 p.m.: Educational cess and higher educational cess to be subsumed as a part of GST.

12.19 p.m.: Wealth tax - Rs. 1,008 crore in 2013-14. Wealth tax to be abolished and replaced with a super-rich tax for those with income of over Rs. 1 crore.

12.17 p.m.: Basic custom duty rate reduced for 22 items.

12.16 p.m.: GAAR - applicability to be deferred by two years.

12.15 p.m.: Allocation for renewable energy 

12.08 p.m.: First proposal is to deal with black money. In the last 9 months, a major breakthrough was achieved when a delegation of the Revenue Department visited Switzerland.

12.07 p.m.: Exemption to individual taxpayers will continue.

12.04 p.m.: Taxation

Basic rate of corporate tax in India is now 30 per cent. But rate of collection is 23 per cent. A regime of exemptions has led to loss of revenue.

Coporate tax rate wil be reduced to 25 per cent over the next four years.

12.02 p.m.: Budget estimates

Non-plan expenditure - Rs. 13,12,200 crore

Plan expenditure - Rs. 4,65,277 crore

Fiscal deficit - 3.9% of GDP

12.01 p.m.: Make in India policy for defence equipment - Rs. 2,46,727 crore allocation for defence.

12.00 noon: Rs. 68,968 crore for education sector.

11.57 a.m.: We are making good progress on Digital India.

11.55 a.m.: AIIMS in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Assam. AIIMS-like institution in Bihar. IIT in Karnataka. IIMs in Jammu and Kashmir, and Andhra Pradesh. Centre for Film Production and Animation in Arunachal Pradesh.

11.54 a.m.: Fully IT based student financial aid scheme for higher education.

11.53 a.m.: National Skills Mission for skill development and entrepreneurship - Rs. 1,500 crore.

11.52 a.m.: Procurement law for public contracts. Govt. to introduce Public Contracts (Resolution of Disputes) Bill. Regulatory reform law to be introduced.

11.51 a.m.: Rs. 75 crore for electric cars production.

11.50 a.m.: Visa on arrival scheme - increased to 150 countries in different stages.

11.49 a.m.: World Heritage Sites - churches and convents of old Goa, Hampi, Elephanta caves, Leh palace, Varanasi temple town, Jallianwala Bagh etc., will be developed to make them more tourist-friendly.

11.48 a.m.: Rs. 1,000 crore additional allocation to the Nirbhaya fund.

11.47 a.m.: Will do away with different types of foreign investment — like FPI and FDI — and replace them with a comprehensive type.

11.46 a.m.: We will look at making India a cashless society by incentivising card transactions.

11.44 a.m.: EPF - Employee may opt for EPF or new pension scheme, employee's contribution to EPF below an income threshold will be optional without reducing employer's contribution.

11.43 a.m.: Direct Tax regime which will be internationally competitive on rates.

11.41 a.m.: Will merge Forward Markets Commision with SEBI. Will set up a public debt management agency.

11.40 a.m.: Rs. 5,000 crore additional allocation for MGNREGA.

11.37 a.m.: Ports will be encouraged to corporatise and become companies under Companies Act.

11.35 a.m.: The govt. is establishing a mechanism for techno-financial incubation and facilitation programme - Rs. 1,000 crore set aside for this.

11.33 a.m.: Investment in Infrastructure will go up by Rs 70,000 crore in 2015-16. Annual inflow of Rs. 20,000 crore by way of a trust, to use this extra equity to leverage investment in infrastructure. PPP model to be revisited and revitalised. Atal Innovation Mission - for entrepreneurs and researchers to foster a culture of innovation: R.s 150 crore for this purpose.

11.32 a.m.: Nayi Manzil scheme - to enable minority youth to obtain school leaving certificate and gain better employment.

11.31 a.m.: Assisted living devices for senior citizens living below the poverty line.

11.30 a.m.: Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana - Rs. 1 per day premium, Rs. 2 lakh coverage.

11.28 a.m.: Accident death risk - Rs 2 lakhs for a premium of Rs. 12 per year. Atal Pension Yojana - defined pension depending on contribution. Govt. will contribute 50 per cent of the amount.

11.27 a.m.: NBFCs registered with RBI above Rs. 5,000 crore to be considered financial institutions.

11.26 a.m.: We will bring a comprehensive bankruptcy code in 2015-16.

11.26 a.m.: Will create Mudra Bank with corpus of Rs. 20,000 crore for microfinance. "We are banking the unbanked and funding the unfunded."

11.25 a.m.: MGNREGA - Rs. 34,699 crore

11.23 a.m.: Rs. 8.5 lakh crore of rural credit for the year.

11.21 a.m.: In order to improve soil health, the Agriculture Ministry's organic farming programme, Rs. 5,300 crore for micro-irrigation watershed projects.

11.20 a.m.: Gross disinvestment in loss-making units will be undertaken. DBT will be further expanded from 1 crore to 10.3 crore.

11.17 a.m.: Total public investment will be Rs 1.25 lakh crore. "Will complete the journey to fiscal deficit of 3 per cent in two years and not three years."

11.16 a.m.: Government will continue all social sector programmes like MNREGA, rural schemes etc.

11.14 a.m.: "We have devolved a 42 per cent share of divisible taxes to States. Devolution will be Rs. 5.2 lakh crore in 2015. Total transfer to States will 62 per cent."

11.13 a.m.: "The rural-urban divide is no longer acceptable."

11.12 a.m.: "All our schemes should focus off-centre on the poor. We need to upgrade 80,000 secondary schools."

11.11 a.m.: Housing for all by 2022 announced — 2 crore in rural areas, 5 crore in urban areas.

11.10 a.m.: Estimated GDP for 2015-16 will be between 8 and 8.5 per cent. "Aiming for a double-digit growth rate seems feasible."

11.08 a.m.: We have embraked on two other programmes now — GST and JAM Trinity. GST will be implemented by April 2016 says Mr. Jaitley.

11.07 a.m.: Mr. Jaitley puts forth three achievements of the new government — the success of the Jan Dhan Yojana, coal auctions and Swachch Bharat Abhiyan. "We will attain the target of building 6 crore toilets. It's at a deeper level a programme of preventive healthcare."

11.05 a.m.: "The people of India have voted resoundingly for quick change, faster growth and high levels of transparency. We have lived up to that trust."

11.04 a.m.: "We inherited a sentiment of doom and gloom. We have come a long way since then. The CAD for the year is expected to be below 1.3% of GDP. Foreign exchange reserves have risen to $340 billion."

11.02 a.m.: "The credibility of the Indian economy has been reestablished," says Mr. Jaitley. "We are a round-the-clock, round-the-year government."

11 a.m.: Arun Jaitley begins his Budget speech. "We have embraced the States as equal partners in the process of economic growth."

10.50 a.m.: Budget documents arrive at the Parliament. Photo: Sandeep Saxena

10.45 a.m.: The Swachch Bharat Abhiyan has a target of building 120 million toilets over five years with an investment of Rs. 2 lakh crore. But the FY '15 target of 12 million targets seems set to be missed.

10.34 a.m.: Which are India’s most effective subsidies, the ones that best reach the poor?

Read The Hindu's National Data Editor Rukmini S.' analysis on how India's Rs. 3.8 lakh crore subsidies don’t always reach the poor.

10.25 a.m.: Take a look at how our Business team demystified the Economic Survey 2014-15, in a live chat with our readers.

10.20 a.m.: Before the Budget speech begins, familiarise yourself with terms that will be used in the speech using our glossary.

10.15 a.m.: Do you know which former Finance Minister used to be a soap salesman and eventually became the first Minister to lose his job over a scam? Head over to our Budget quiz to answer this and more.

10.10 a.m.: The Hindu's headlines on previous Union Budgets, over the years. See the slideshow here.

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EDITORIAL POSTAL CRUSADER MARCH 2015

MAKE THE 28^th APRIL -2015 PARLIAMENT MARCH

ON THE CALL OF NATIONAL COUNCIL JCM

A HISTORIC SUCCESS.

The Central Government is reluctant to settle the justified and genuine demands of Central Government employees i.e. 100% D.A. merger, 25% Interim Relief, Inclusion of GDS in 7^th CPC , Date of Effect 1.1.2014 , Scrapping of New Pension Scheme , filing up of vacant  posts, in all Department’s , withdrawal of contractrization  and out sourcing  policy, removal of 5% ceiling on compassionate  appointments, Removal of MACP related  anomalies , Revision of OTA Rates  including some other demands.

Joint Consultative Machinery which was formed for the redressal of grievances of Central Government Employees by negotiations has been made defunct and no meeting has been held after 2010. After constitution of 7^th CPC the views of Staff Side N.C. JCM has not been taken into account. The Terms of Reference of 7^th CPC were declared unilaterally and agreed draft of Terms of Reference submitted by Staff Side was not given cognizance. The Minister in P.M.O. Shri Jitendra Singh replied in response to the question raised by some MPs that Government is not going to grant 100% or 50%  D.A. Merger , 25%  Interim Relief and inclusion of GDS in 7^th CPC.

In the back ground of all these developments a National Convention of all constituents of National Council JCM was convened in New Delhi on 11^th December-2014. All the participants’ organizations vehemently opposed the policies of Central Government.

After detailed deliberations it was decided that a massive Parliament March will be organized in New Delhi on 28^th April-2015 in which the date of Indefinite Strike will be declared. Intensive preparation campaign is going on. NJCA was formed at National level in which the top leaders of AIRF, NFIR, AIDEF, NDWF, Confederation, NFPE and FNPO are included. State JCAs have been formed in most of the circles and State conventions have also been held and wherever it has not been formed the state leadership has been asked to complete this work very soon.

It has been decided to mobilize five lakh Central Government Employees to participate in Parliament March. Accordingly quota has been fixed for Railways,   Defence, Confederation and NFPE. Accordingly NFPE has also allotted quota to each affiliated union. Comrades, as we know that whatever we have achieved that is because of struggles only. The present government is functioning to give maximum benefit to the corporates and capitalists. It is not at all concerned about the working class. It started disinvestment in PSUs, Declared 100% FDI in Railway and 49 % FDI in Defence. The recommendations of Task Force Committee headed by TSR Subramaniam .are big danger for Deptt of Post which has paved the way of privatization through Corporatization.  

Confederation of C.G.E&W and NFPE have given separate programmes of agitation which should be observed with great enthusiasm.

NFPE calls upon the entire Postal, RMS  and GDS employees to make all the programmes a grand success and mobilize the maximum number employees, more than the quota allotted to each affiliated union to take part in  the Parliament March  on 28^th April-2015 on call of National Council JCM to make it a historic success.

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Lalit Kumar email : lalitdhangerock@rediffmail.com     Salient Features of Sukanya Samridhi Account / Sukanya Samridhi Yojana    Salient Features of Sukanya Samridhi Account / Sukanya Samridhi Yojana Parents / legal Guardian can open account in the name of Girl Child under Sukanya Samridhi Yojana Only one account in the name of one girl child and maximum two accounts in the name of two different girl children for a family. (There is one exception to this rule. The natural or legal guardian can open two or three accounts if twin girls are born as second birth or triplets are born in the first birth itself.) SSA can be opened in the name of a girl child from the birth of the girl child till she attains the age of 10 years. Girls up to Age 11 as 02.12.2015 are eligible this year only introductory offer On attaining age of ten years, the account holder that is the girl child may herself operate the account, however, deposit in the account may be made by the guardian or parents. No nomination facility is available for accounts under SSA First Deposit Minimum amount Rs. 1000. (Subsequent deposit should be in multiple of Rs.100/-) Minimum RS. 1000 and Maximum amount Rs.1,50,000 to be deposited in a financial year in this account (No limit for No. of Deposit ) Penalty Rs.50 per year if minimum contribution is not made. Interest rate for the financial year 2014-15 is  9.1% After 18 years Partial withdrawal, maximum upto 50% of the balance standing at the end of the preceding financial year can be taken Deposits have to be made for first 14 years only Maturity Period - 21 years from the date of opening of account. 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