Top 27 Highlights of Budget FY 2024-25 by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

1. No Changes in Income Tax Slabs
2. No Change in Tax rates for Company, LLP or any other person
3. Some Exemption to Startups and Extend some concession – extension of tax sops for soverign wealth funds and startups to March 2025
4. Tax payers service – Withdrawal of direct tax demands of period upto ₹25000 for period upto 2009-10 and ₹10000 for period upto 2014-15, 1 Crore people will benefit
5. 40,000 normal railway bogies will be converted to vande Bharat standards
6. 1-lakh crore corpus will be made available with 50 year interest free (long-term financing or refinancing) to encourage the private sector to scale up R&D. Corpus of 1 Lakh Crore for Reduced Rate Loans to Private Sector for Research in Sunrise Domains
7. Rooftop solarisation and free electricity Through rooftop solarisation, 1 crore households will be enabled to obtain up to 300 units of free electricity every month
8. This scheme follows resolve of Prime Minister, on the historic day of consecration of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya
9. Garib, Mahila, Annadata and Yuva will be focus groups
10. SithramanWorking to make India a Vikasit Bharat by 2047
11. Worries about food have been eliminated with free rations for 80 crore people
12. 25 crores Indians were pulled out of multi dimensional poverty by the govt over past 10 yrs
13. Govt could save 2.7-lakh crore through avoidance of leakages
14. Electronic agri Mandi has connected 1051 mandis, transacting ₹2-lakh crore
15. Minimum support prices for ‘Annadata’ (farmers) increased periodically
16. Direct financial assistance was extended to 11.8 crore farmers
17. For our government, social justice is an effective and necessary model
18. Female enrolment in higher education has gone up by 28 per cent in 10 year
19. Avg real income has increased by 50 per cent
20. Every year under PM Kisan Samman Yojana, Direct financial assistance is provided to 11.8 crore farmers, including marginal and small farmers
21. PM SVANIDHI has provided credit assistance to 78 lakh street vendors, from that total, 2.3 lakh have received credit for the third time
22. PM JANMAN Yojana reaches out Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups
23. PM Vishakarma Yojana provides end to end support to artisans and craftspeople
24. Scheme for empowerment of Divyang and transgender people reflects our resolve to leave no one behind
25. PM Mudra Yojana has sanctioned 43 crore loans amounting to Rs. 22.5 lakh crore for entrepreneurial aspirations of your youth
26. Fund of Funds, Startup India and Startup Credit Guarantee Schemes are assisting our youth
27. The National Education Policy 2020 is ushering transformational reform.