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* Plan expenditure will be 29.4% more than revised estimates in the current year
* Budget for 2013-14 has one overarching goal-to create opportunities for youth to get skills to get jobs,and adequate incomes
* Single women and widows must be able to live with dignity; WCD has been asked to design schemes
* The new national health mission will get 24.5% increase over the RE
* Thousand of scholarships for students belongs to SC, STs, and disadavantaged classes
* Multisectoral programme to fight malnutrition will be implemented; Rs. 300 crore to be allocated; 100 districts to be covered
* Will allocate Rs. 17,700 crore to Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme
* JNNURM is being continued in the 12th Plan; Rs. 14,873 crore to be provided to the Mission
* A large part of the JNNURM to be spent on purchase of buses especially in the hilly areas
* Farmers have responded to the price signals and produced more; Rs. 27,049 cr to be allocated to the agriculture ministry
* Small and marginal farmers vulnerable everyone; watershed management crucial; Rs. 5387 cr allocated for Integrated Watershed Programme
* The National Livestock Mission will be launched in 2013. Rs. 307 crore to be provided for the Mission
* The National Food Security Bill is the promise of the UPA Govt, sincerely hope that Parliament will pass the Bill soon
* The key to restart growth is to restart the investment engine; will remove any apprehension in the minds of investors
* Need to improve communication of policies to remove distrust and fear among investors
* Propose to seek help of ADB and WB to invest in roads in NE states and connect them to Myanmar
* The road construction sector faces challenges not envisaged earlier including financial stress; Regulatory Authority to be set up
* Cabinet Committee on Investment has been set up to monitor and guide the projects to remove bottlenecks
* The Delhi Mumbai Industrial Project has made rapid projects; work on 2 new smart industrial cities will start during 2013-14
* Proposal to bring instruments that will protect (the country) from inflation
* Income level for Rajiv Gandhi Equity Scheme raised by Rs. 2 lakh
* Additional interest deduction upto 1 lakh for home loan upto Rs. 25 lakhs during FY 14. Deduction available on first home loan
* Semiconductor sector given boost with zero customs duty on import of plant and machinery
* The natural gas pricing policy will be reviewed; any LP blocks that have been stalled will be cleared
* The govt has approved a scheme for financial restructuring of discoms; urge state govts to prepare the plans immediately
* We need to reduce dependence on imported coal, despite abundunt coal reserves we continue to import coal
* MSMEs: too many of them do not grow due to fear of losing benefits, propose to give them them non-tax benefits for 3 years
* Propose to continue with the technology upgradation funds scheme for the textile sector, environmental concerns of the textile industry to be taken care of
* 150,000 individual weavers will benefit in this year, propose to allocate an addl sum of Rs. 96 crore for ministry of textiles
* Propose to constitute a standing counsel of experts to analyse the competitiveness of the Indian sector
* In 2013-14, propose to provide Rs. 14000 crore for capital infusion in public sector banks
* PSBs have assured me that all their branches will have an ATM by 2013-14
* Propose to set up India's first women's bank as a Public Sector Bank; propose to provide Rs. 1000 crore as initial capital
* Insurance companies will be able to start branches in Tier 2 cities and below, without approval of IRDA
* The insurance amendement bill and the PFRDA bills are before the house; hope that they will be passed soon
* Income limit for the tax-saving Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme raised to Rs. 12 lakh from Rs. 10 lakh
* SEBI will simplify procedures for entry of foreign portfolio investors to invest in India
* All towns of India with a population of over 10000 to have an LIC office
* Low interest bearing funds for clean / green energy sector. Generation-based incentives for wind energy
* Present criteria for determining backwardness will be changed; propose to frame new criteria
* Defence spending at Rs. 2,20,000 crore, Rs. 86721 crore for capital expenditure
* Rs. 5400 crore to department of space and Rs. 5600 crore to department of atomic energy
* With help of Ministry of S&T,I have identified amazing innovations; Will allocate Rs. 200 crore to scale them & make them avaiable to people
* Cities with population of more than 1 lakh will be covered with private FM channel providers, 294 more cities to be connected by FM radio
* Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana to include rickshaw pullers, taxi drivers and ragpickers
* Nirbhaya Fund with a corpus of 1000 crore to be set up for girl child welfare
* Skill trained will be given boost in employment and producitvity; 10 lakh youth can be motivated in one year
* Assure that the Direct Benefit Transfer scheme will be rolled out during the term of the UPA govt
* Redeem our promise by 2016-17 and bring down fiscal deficit to 3% and revenue deficit to 1.5%
* The fiscal deficit for the current year has been contained at 5.2%
* Tax credits of Rs. 2000 to every person who has total income upto Rs. 5 lakh
* There are 42,800 persons in the country who admitted to a taxable income exceeding Rs. 1 crore per year
* Increase import duty to increase from 5% to 10% to encourage production of set top boxes in the country
* ST does not apply to AC restaurants that do not serve liquor at present; now all AC restaurants will have to pay service tax
* SUVs occupy more road and parking space and ought to bear higher tax: excise duty rate to be increased from 27% to 30%
* Increase in import duty on high-end motor vehicles from 75% to 100%; and on motorcylces from 60% to 75%
* Serious intent of the govt to pass a GST law, need for state and central govt to pass a GST law
* ST does not apply to AC restaurants that do not serve liquor at present; now all AC restaurants will have to pay service tax
* Serious intent of the govt to pass a GST law, need for state and central govt to pass a GST law