The country has produced a record harvest, but many farmers in the onion bowl of Maharashtra have lost a large share of their crop damaged in storage, adding to the country's inflation woes.
Structural changes to government finances could be focus of the Union Budget, says Mihir S Sharma.
The Budget decides to take the lead in revving up infrastructure.
To a lay observer, therefore, India today presents two conflicting realities.
There are some 20-odd schemes with this default provision, or something close to it.
The Budget sets out a comprehensive vision.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the Union Budget.
With Narendra Modi about to make his first Independence Day speech, there is a buzz in Delhi that Modi will make some big announcements to signal major reforms and directional shifts. But we have to wait and see if it happens, says Mohan Guruswamy.
'Power sits lightly on Arun Jaitley's shoulders. Just because earth-shaking election results have brought his party in power, he has not gone recklessly ambitious. "Too soon, too fast" is not what he likes,' says Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com about Budget 2014.
Eminent business journalist and author Tamal Bandyopadhyay discussed Budget with rediff.com readers on Tuesday.
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