In an election year the Finance Minister presented a pragmatic Budget with no giveaways
Those looking for tax sops, cash giveaways and loan waivers in the interim Budget were in for a disappointment. There were none of those.
In plentiful supply were fiscal rectitude, slightly lower spending and a continued build out of the country’s infrastructure. These markers of the Budget pointed to a government that was as confident of its management of the economy as it is of coming back for another full term.