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Union Budget 2018: Relief for farmers, but no change in I-T slabs
Updated On: 01 February, 2018 05:19 PM IST | Mumbai | Alex Mathews
This budget is heavily slanted towards the rural poor; education, health and infrastructure development win large chunk of the funds; Centre's 'smart cities' project gets major push


Illustration/ Uday Mohite
It is dial K for kisaan, in this government's last budget before the polls. We expected the focus to be on agriculture and farmers in this budget, and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has done just that. From the first, it was evident that there is a heavy slant towards the rural economy in the budget. It has broken the stereotype to some extent of the government veering only towards the rich, urban person or the businessman.
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