75 Highlights of Budget FY 2024-25 by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman part 1

1. No Changes in Income Tax Slabs

2. No Change in Tax rates for Company, LLP or any other person

3. Some Exemption to Srartups 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 reforms

28. PM Shri is delivering quality teaching

29. Skill India Mission has trained 1.4 crore youth, upskilled and reskillled 54 lakh

youth and established 3,000 new ITIs

30. Large no. of institutions of higher learning namely 7 IITs, 16 IIITs, 7 IIMs, 15

AIIMSs and 390 universities have been set up