Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday laid out Prime Minister Narendra Modi's roadmap to a healthier economy and the nation in the next five years.
This was Modi 2.0 government's first Budget, making Sitharaman only the second woman to have presented a Union Budget in the Lok Sabha.
The finance minister announced a slew of steps to boost India's infrastructure including a budget allocation for 1,25,000 km of rural roads under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana at a cost of Rs 80,250 crore and creating a national highways grid.
Here's the full list of what has become costlier and what has become cheaper:
Costlier
- Petrol
- Diesel
- Gold
- Imported Air Conditioners
- Imported vehicles
- Tiles
- Cashew kernels
- Auto parts
- Some synthetic rubber
- Digital and video recorder
- Cigarettes, hooka
- Synthetic rubber
- Vinyl flooring
- Imported books
- Loudspeakers
- CCTV cameras
- Imported plastics
- Imported stainless steel products
- Camera module and charger of mobile phones
Cheaper
- Electronic appliances
- Electric vehicles
- Set-top box
- Import of defence equipment
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