Union Budget 2016

Reactions to and reviews of the Union Budget 2016, presented in the Lok Sabha by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on February 29th, 2016

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My Take on OpIndia

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Abheek Barua (HDFC Bank) — Business Standard — Ticking all the right boxes

Ajay Shah — Business Standard — Nothing exceptional at all

Ajit Ranade — Livemint — An admirable balance

A K Bhattacharya — Business Standard — Budget with a difference

Anil Padmanabhan — Livemint — Bharat’s budget… and India’s too

Arundhati Bhattacharya (SBI) — Financial Express — On the path to fiscal consolidation

Arvind Pangariya — NITI Aayog

Arvind Virmani — Indian Express — Race to the top

http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/union-budget-2016-race-to-the-top/

Ashok Desai — Economic Times — FM Arun Jaitley doesn’t need no economics

Ashok Ganguly — Indian Express — No gamechangers for farmers

Bhartruhari Mahtab — Livemint — Budget 2016: A course correction in the right direction

Business Standard Editorial — Mr Jaitley delivers

Daily Pioneer Editorial — Soot boot ki sarkar, are you joking?

Dharmakirti Joshi (Crisil) — Livemint — Budget 2016 goes for prudence over populism

Financial Express Editorial — Walking the talk on fiscal rectitude

Gopal Srinivasan (TVS Capital) — Livemint — Budget 2016: Good start, but only half done

Ila Patnaik — Indian Express — La la land budget

Indian Express Edit — Prudent, and a little too staid

Jayant Sinha (Minister of State for Finance) — Economic Times — The poor in India will no longer be unfortunate

Jayati Ghosh — Indian Express — The budget recognises the crisis in rural India, but allocations do not match the talk

Krishnamurthy Subramanian (ISB) — Indian Express — A budget for Bharat

Laveesh Bhandari — Business Standard — Third time lucky

Livemint Edit — A sensible fiscal strategy underlying Budget 2016

Livemint Edit — Farm Economics in Budget 2016

Manas Chakravarty — Intent positive, delivery suspect

Manish Sabharwal (Teamlease) — Livemint — Budget 2016: Moving beyond the weather of the moment

Mihir Sharma — Business Standard — Finally, A forward looking budget

Minhaz Merchant — DailyO — Jaitley’s sharp Left turn shows Modi eager to please Lutyens’ Delhi

MS Vindi Banga — Hindustan Times — Set a new standard for implementation and delivery

Nandan Nilekani — Times of India — Some hits, some misses: Budget’s most important miss is it does not get coming disruption from digital technology

Neelkanth Mishra (Credit Suisse)— Indian Express — The merits of fiscal prudence

Pinaki Chakraborty — Swarajya — Is revenue led fiscal consolidation possible?

Pratap Bhanu Mehta — Indian Express — The triumph of centrism

R Jagannathan — Swarajya — 10 major takeaways from Jaitley’s speech

R Jagannathan — Swarajya — Despite EPF angst, Modi has addressed his core constituencies

Rakesh Mohan (Brookings) — Hindustan Times — More Rahul Dravid Than Sachin Tendulkar

Rathin Roy — Business Standard — Focus on reforms, fiscal commitments

Renu Kohli — Livemint — Growth takes a backseat

Reuters Report — Jaitley’s budget is Modi government’s attempt to win back rural voters

Sadanand Dhume — Wall Street Journal — Say goodbye to Mr. Modi, the reformer-in-chief

Sajjid Chinoy (JP Morgan) — Financial Express — Well left, Mr. Jaitley!

Saurabh Mukherjea (Ambit Capital) — Economic Times — The shift in government spending from capex towards revex is retrograde

Seetha — Swarajya — Not the Make or Break budget country needed

Seetha — Swarajya — Where is the capital expenditure push, Mr. Jaitley?

Shamika Ravi (Brookings) — Livemint — Marginal revolutions from Budget 2016

Shankkar Aiyar — Amar Ujala — Abki Baar, Kisan Mazdoor Rozgar

Shankkar Aiyar — New Indian Express — The Ides of March and the long march of reforms

Shekhar Gupta — Business Standard — Budget 2016 shows Modi is a reformer in retreat

Sudipto Mundle — Livemint — A predictable but unrealistic budget

Sunil Jain — Financial Express — The best laid plans

Swaminathan SA Aiyer — Economic Times — Dodgy statistics and global tempests can sink budget calculations

Sutanu Guru — Business World India — A premature election budget?

Swapan Dasgupta — Hindustan Times — Jaitley’s caution has unwittingly paid off

Times of India Editorial — Booting out the suit: Jaitley’s third budget loses an opportunity to reboot the economy

V Anantha Nageswaran — Livemint — Deficit vs growth consciousness

V Anantha Nageswaran — Swarajya — Prudent and thoughtful, but that may not be enough

Vinayak Chatterjee — Financial Express — Rural infra and PPP get a fillip

Vivek Kaul — BBC — Why Narendra Modi’s budget looks familiar?

Vivek Kaul — Equitymaster — Why fiscal deficit numbers don’t add up?

Vivek Kaul — Swarajya — Until when will the government continue to support the public sector banks?