Budget 2011 highlights
Government hopes to implement direct tax code from April 2011. Earnest endeavour to implement general sales tax in April 2011. Government will raise Rs25,000 crore from divestment of its stake in state-owned firms. Kirit Parekh report on fuel price deregulation will be taken up by petroleum minister Murli Deora in due course. Nutrient-based fertiliser subsidy scheme to come into force from April 1 this year. Nutrient-based fertiliser subsidy will reduce volatility of subsidy and also reduce it. Market capitalisation of five public-sector undertakings listed since October increased by 3.5 times. FDI inflows steady during the year. Government has taken series of steps to simplify FDI regime. Intends to make FDI policy user friendly by compling all guidelines into one document. Government has decided to set up apex-level Financial Stability and Development Council. RBI considering issuing banking licences to private companies. Non-banking finance companies will also be conside...