Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, in the thick of things on budget day, takes time off on Saturday and tells Financial Chronicle in a wide-ranging interview that he wants to boost

I rate the union budget for FY11 as a good budget, which lays out the targets and roadmap of the government to maintain growth momentum in the country while ensuring

This budget reminds me of a verse from Bhagvadgita : “annad bhavanti bhutani” all living bodies subsist on food grains. To me budget proposals, prima facie, seems to

The guiding principle of Budget 2010 was not only to improve growth, but also to make the growth process more inclusive and sustainable. Therefore, while the medium-term growth target

t he Indian economy is reverting towards normalisation and the budget has provided adequate support to sustain the momentum. This in turn has enabled a clear roadmap

In our country much is expected from Union Budgets. Finance ministers not only have to deal with the more serious economic/fiscal problem of the country but they

t he anxiety on the food front arises from the steep fall in agricultural GDP (-0. 2 per cent) during 2009-10 reduced water availability in 81 major reservoirs

that seems to be the finance minister’s message to the IT industry. The IT industry after growing at a phenomenal clip in the past several years slowed