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From 6 pillars of Budget 2021 to tax proposals: Decoding the fineprint
In her Budget speech that lasted for around 1 hour and 45 minutes, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman doled out enormous amounts for railways, roadways, health care, education as well as the agriculture sector. Besides, the finance minister laid out a new import structure along with proposals for a conducive environment to usher in investments into FinTech, insurance and Start-ups. Further, the minister set aside Rs 20,000 crore for public sector bank re-capitalisation and gave a push to digital payments and research in Artificial Intelligence. Business Standard's Shrimi Choudhary analyses the key announcements made by the finance minister in this video.