Ministry of Finance

SUMMARY OF THE UNION BUDGET 2024-2025

Posted On: 23 JUL 2024 1:21PM by PIB Delhi

INDIA’S INFLATION CONTINUES TO BE LOW, STABLE AND MOVING TOWARDS THE 4

PER CENT TARGET
PM’S PACKAGE OF 5 SCHEMES AND INITIATIVES WITH AN OUTLAY OF ₹ 2 LAKH
CRORE TO FACILITATE EMPLOYMENT, SKILLING AND OTHER OPPORTUNITIES FOR 4.1
CRORE YOUTH IN 5 YEARS
FOR PURSUIT OF ‘VIKSIT BHARAT’, THE BUDGET ENVISAGES SUSTAINED EFFORTS ON
9 PRIORITIES FOR GENERATING AMPLE OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL
BUDGET 2024-25 FOCUSES ON EMPLOYMENT, SKILLING, MSME’s AND MIDDLE CLASS
NEW 109 HIGH-YIELDING AND CLIMATE-RESILIENT VARIETIES OF 32 FIELD AND
HORTICULTURE CROPS WILL BE RELEASED FOR CULTIVATION BY FARMERS
IN THE NEXT TWO YEARS, 1 CRORE FARMERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY WILL BE
INITIATED INTO NATURAL FARMING
A PROVISION OF ₹ 1.52 LAKH CRORE FOR AGRICULTURE AND ALLIED SECTOR
ANNOUNCED FOR THIS YEAR.
1,000 INDUSTRIAL TRAINING INSTITUTES WILL BE UPGRADED
GOVERNMENT WILL FORMULATE A PLAN, PURVODAYA, FOR THE ALL-ROUND
DEVELOPMENT OF THE EASTERN REGION COVERING BIHAR, JHARKHAND, WEST
BENGAL, ODISHA AND ANDHRA PRADESH
FOR PROMOTING WOMEN-LED DEVELOPMENT, THE BUDGET CARRIES AN
ALLOCATION OF MORE THAN ` 3 LAKH CRORE FOR SCHEMES BENEFITTING WOMEN
AND GIRLS
A PROVISION OF ₹ 2.66 LAKH CRORE FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT INCLUDING RURAL
INFRASTRUCTURE MADE THIS YEAR
THE LIMIT OF MUDRA LOANS WILL BE ENHANCED TO ₹ 20 LAKH FROM THE CURRENT
₹ 10 LAKH
GOVERNMENT TO LAUNCH A COMPREHENSIVE SCHEME FOR PROVIDING
INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES IN 500 TOP COMPANIES TO 1 CRORE YOUTH IN 5 YEARS
UNDER PM AWAS YOJANA URBAN 2.0, HOUSING NEEDS OF 1 CRORE URBAN POOR
AND MIDDLE-CLASS FAMILIES WILL BE ADDRESSED WITH AN INVESTMENT OF ₹ 10
LAKH CRORE
PHASE IV OF PMGSY WILL BE LAUNCHED TO PROVIDE ALL-WEATHER CONNECTIVITY
TO 25,000 RURAL HABITATIONS

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 EMPHASIS ON EXPANDING THE SPACE ECONOMY BY 5 TIMES IN THE NEXT 10 YEARS
WITH A VENTURE CAPITAL FUND OF ₹ 1,000 CRORE
MAJOR RELIEF TO 4 CRORE SALARIED INDIVIDUALS AND PENSIONERS IN INCOME
TAX
STANDARD DEDUCTION INCREASED FROM ₹ 50,000 TO ₹ 75,000/- FOR THOSE IN
NEW TAX REGIME
DEDUCTION ON FAMILY PENSION INCREASED FROM ₹ 15,000/- TO ₹ 25,000/-
OVER 58 PER CENT CORPORATE TAX RECEIPTS COLLECTED UNDER THE NEW
REGIME
TWO THIRD OF INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX PAYERS SWITCHED OVER TO NEW INCOME
TAX REGIME
ANGEL TAX ABOLISHED FOR ALL CLASS OF INVESTORS TO BOOST START-UPS AND
INVESTMENTS
CORPORATE TAX ON FOREIGN COMPANIES REDUCED FROM 40 TO 35 PER CENT TO
INVITE INVESTMENTS
5 PER CENT TDS ON MANY PAYMENTS MERGED TO 2 PER CENT TDS
CAPITAL GAIN EXEMPTION LIMIT INCREASED TO ₹ 1.25 LAKH PER YEAR TO BENEFIT
LOWER AND MIDDLE INCOME CLASSES
CUSTOM DUTY ON X-RAY PANELS, MOBILE PHONES & PCBA REDUCED TO 15 PER
CENT
PRECIOUS METALS INCLUDING GOLD AND SILVER TO BECOME CHEAPER, CUSTOM
DUTY REDUCED TO 6 PER CENT
PART A
Despite global economy remaining under the grip of policy uncertainties, India’s economic growth continues to be the shining exception and
will remain so in the years ahead. Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Smt Nirmala Sitharaman, while presenting the Union Budget
2024-25 in Parliament today said that India’s inflation continues to be low, stable and moving towards the 4 per cent target. Core inflation
(non-food, non-fuel) currently is 3.1 per cent and steps are being taken to ensure supplies of perishable goods reach market adequately.

Interim Budget

The Finance Minister said that as mentioned in the interim budget, the focus is on 4 major castes, namely ‘Garib’ (Poor), ‘Mahilayen’
(Women), ‘Yuva’ (Youth) and ‘Annadata’ (Farmer).

Budget Theme

Dwelling on the Budget theme, Smt Sitharaman said, turning attention to the full year and beyond, in this budget, we particularly focus on
employment, skilling, MSMEs, and the middle class. She announced the Prime Minister’s package of 5 schemes and initiatives to facilitate
employment, skilling and other opportunities for 4.1 crore youth over a 5-year period with a central outlay of ₹2 lakh crore. This year, ₹1.48
lakh crore has been allocated for education, employment and skilling.

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 Budget Priorities

The Finance Minister said, for pursuit of ‘Viksit Bharat’, the budget envisages sustained efforts on the following 9 priorities for generating
ample opportunities for all.
1. Productivity and resilience in Agriculture
2. Employment & Skilling
3. Inclusive Human Resource Development and Social Justice
4. Manufacturing & Services
5. Urban Development
6. Energy Security
7. Infrastructure
8. Innovation, Research & Development and
9. Next Generation Reforms

Priority 1: Productivity and resilience in Agriculture

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 The Finance Minister announced that the government will undertake a comprehensive review of the agriculture research setup to bring the
focus on raising productivity. New 109 high-yielding and climate-resilient varieties of 32 field and horticulture crops will be released for
cultivation by farmers.

In the next two years, 1 crore farmers across the country will be initiated into natural farming supported by certification and branding.

10,000 need-based bio-input resource centres will be established.

For achieving self-sufficiency in pulses and oilseeds, government will strengthen their production, storage and marketing and to achieve
‘atmanirbharta’ for oil seeds such as mustard, groundnut, sesame, soybean, and sunflower.

Government, in partnership with the states, will facilitate the implementation of the Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) in agriculture for
coverage of farmers and their lands in 3 years.

Smt Sitharaman announced a provision of ₹1.52 lakh crore for agriculture and allied sector this year.

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 Priority 2: Employment & Skilling

The Finance Minister said that the government will implement 3 schemes for ‘Employment Linked Incentive’, as part of the Prime
Minister’s package. These will be based on enrolment in the EPFO, and focus on recognition of first-time employees, and support to
employees and employers.

Government will also facilitate higher participation of women in the workforce through setting up of working women hostels in
collaboration with industry, and establishing creches.

Referring to the Skilling programme, the Finance Minister announced a new centrally sponsored scheme, as the 4th scheme under the Prime
Minister’s package, for skilling in collaboration with state governments and Industry. 20 lakh youth will be skilled over a 5-year period and
1,000 Industrial Training Institutes will be upgraded in hub and spoke arrangements with outcome orientation.

She also announced that the Model Skill Loan Scheme will be revised to facilitate loans up to
₹7.5 lakh with a guarantee from a government promoted Fund, which is expected to help 25,000 students every year.

For helping the youth, who have not been eligible for any benefit under government schemes and policies, she announced a financial support
for loans upto ₹10 lakh for higher education in domestic institutions. E-vouchers for this purpose will be given directly to 1 lakh students
every year for annual interest subvention of 3 per cent of the loan amount.

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 Priority 3: Inclusive Human Resource Development and Social Justice

Talking about the Saturation approach, the Finance Minister emphasised that implementation of schemes meant for supporting economic
activities by craftsmen, artisans, self-help groups, scheduled caste, schedule tribe and women entrepreneurs, and street vendors, such as PM
Vishwakarma, PM SVANidhi, National Livelihood Missions, and Stand-Up India will be stepped up.

Purvodaya

Government will formulate a plan, Purvodaya, for the all-round development of the eastern region of the country covering Bihar, Jharkhand,
West Bengal, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. This will cover human resource development, infrastructure, and generation of economic
opportunities to make the region an engine to attain Viksit Bharat.

Pradhan Mantri Janjatiya Unnat Gram Abhiyan

The Finance Minister announced that for improving the socio-economic condition of tribal communities, government will launch the
Pradhan Mantri Janjatiya Unnat Gram Abhiyan by adopting saturation coverage for tribal families in tribal-majority villages and aspirational
districts covering 63,000 villages and benefitting 5 crore tribal people.

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 More than 100 branches of India Post Payment Bank will be set up in the North East region to expand the banking services.

She said, a provision of ₹2.66 lakh crore for rural development including rural infrastructure was made this year.

Priority 4: Manufacturing & Services

Support for promotion of MSMEs

Smt Sitharaman said, this budget provides special attention to MSMEs and manufacturing, particularly labour-intensive manufacturing. A
separately constituted self-financing guarantee fund will provide, to each applicant, guarantee cover up to ₹100 crore, while the loan amount
may be larger. Similarly, Public sector banks will build their in-house capability to assess MSMEs for credit, instead of relying on external
assessment. She also announced a new mechanism for facilitating continuation of bank credit to MSMEs during their stress period.

Mudra Loans

The limit of Mudra loans will be enhanced to ₹ 20 lakh from the current ₹ 10 lakh for those entrepreneurs who have availed and
successfully repaid previous loans under the ‘Tarun’ category.

MSME Units for Food Irradiation, Quality & Safety Testing

Financial support for setting up of 50 multi-product food irradiation units in the MSME sector will be provided. Setting up of 100 food
quality and safety testing labs with NABL accreditation will also be facilitated. To enable MSMEs and traditional artisans to sell their
products in international markets, E-Commerce Export Hubs will be set up in public-private-partnership (PPP) mode .

Internship in Top Companies

The Finance Minister said that as the 5th scheme under the Prime Minister’s package, government will launch a comprehensive scheme for
providing internship opportunities in 500 top companies to 1 crore youth in 5 years.

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 Priority 5: Urban Development

Urban Housing

Under the PM AwasYojana Urban 2.0, housing needs of 1 crore urban poor and middle-class families will be addressed with an investment
of ₹ 10 lakh crore. This will include the central assistance of ₹ 2.2 lakh crore in the next 5 years.
Water Supply and Sanitation

In partnership with the State Governments and Multilateral Development Banks, government will promote water supply, sewage treatment
and solid waste management projects and services for 100 large cities through bankable projects.

PM SVANidhi

She added that building on the success of PM SVANidhi Scheme in transforming the lives of street vendors, Government envisions a scheme
to support each year, over the next five years, the development of 100 weekly ‘haats’ or street food hubs in select cities.

Priority 6: Energy Security

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 The Finance Minister said, in line with the announcement in the interim budget, PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana has been launched to
install rooftop solar plants to enable 1 crore households obtain free electricity up to 300 units every month. The scheme has generated
remarkable response with more than 1.28 crore registrations and 14 lakh applications.

Nuclear energy is expected to form a very significant part of the energy mix for Viksit Bharat.

Priority 7: Infrastructure

The Finance Minister underlined that significant investment the Central Government has made over the years in building and improving
infrastructure has had a strong multiplier effect on the economy. Government will endeavour to maintain strong fiscal support for
infrastructure over the next 5 years, in conjunction with imperatives of other priorities and fiscal consolidation. ₹11,11,111 crore for capital
expenditure has been allocated this year, which is 3.4 per cent of our GDP.

Pradhan Mantri Gram SadakYojana (PMGSY)

The Finance Minister announced that Phase IV of PMGSY will be launched to provide all-weather connectivity to 25,000 rural habitations
which have become eligible in view of their population increase.

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 For Irrigation and Flood Mitigation in Bihar, through the Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme and other sources, government will
provide financial support for projects with estimated cost of ₹11,500 crore such as the Kosi-Mechi intra-state link and 20 other ongoing and
new schemes including barrages, river pollution abatement and irrigation projects. Government will also provide assistance to Assam,
Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Sikkim for flood management, landslides and related projects.

Priority 8: Innovation, Research & Development

The Finance Minister said that government will operationalize the Anusandhan National Research Fund for basic research and prototype
development and set up a mechanism for spurring private sector-driven research and innovation at commercial scale with a financing pool of
₹1 lakh crore in line with the announcement in the interim budget.

Space Economy

With our continued emphasis on expanding the space economy by 5 times in the next 10 years, a venture capital fund of ₹1,000 crore will be
set up.

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 Priority 9: Next Generation Reforms

Economic Policy Framework

The Finance Minister said that the government will formulate an Economic Policy Framework to delineate the overarching approach to
economic development and set the scope of the next generation of reforms for facilitating employment opportunities and sustaining high
growth.

Labour related reforms

Government will facilitate the provision of a wide array of services to labour, including those for employment and skilling. A comprehensive
integration of e-shram portal with other portals will facilitate such one-stop solution. Shram Suvidha and Samadhan portals will be revamped
to enhance ease of compliance for industry and trade.

Government will develop a taxonomy for climate finance for enhancing the availability of capital for climate adaptation and mitigation.

Foreign Direct Investment and Overseas Investment

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 The rules and regulations for Foreign Direct Investment and Overseas Investments will be simplified to (1) facilitate foreign direct
investments, (2) nudge prioritization, and (3) promote opportunities for using Indian Rupee as a currency for overseas investments.

NPS Vatsalya

NPS-Vatsalya, a plan for contribution by parents and guardians for minors will be started. On attaining the age of majority, the plan can be
converted seamlessly into a normal NPS account.

New Pension Scheme (NPS)

The Finance Minister said that the Committee to review the NPS has made considerable progress in its work and a solution will be evolved
which addresses the relevant issues while maintaining fiscal prudence to protect the common citizens.

Budget Estimates 2024-25

The Finance Minister informed that for the year 2024-25, the total receipts other than borrowings and the total expenditure are estimated at
₹32.07 lakh crore and ₹48.21 lakh crore respectively. The net tax receipts are estimated at ₹25.83 lakh crore and the fiscal deficit is
estimated at 4.9 per cent of GDP.

She said, the gross and net market borrowings through dated securities during 2024-25 are estimated at ₹14.01 lakh crore and ₹11.63 lakh
crore respectively.

Smt Sitharaman emphasised that the fiscal consolidation path announced by her in 2021 has served economy very well, and the government
will aim to reach a deficit below 4.5 per cent next year.

PART B
Apart from giving relief to four crore salaried individuals and pensioners of the country in the direct taxes, Union Budget 2024-25 seeks to
comprehensively review the direct and indirect taxes in the next six months, simplifying them, reducing tax incidence and compliance
burdens and broadening the tax nets. The Budget proposes comprehensive rationalization of GST tax structure along with review of the
Custom Duty rate structure to improve the tax base and support domestic manufacturing. A comprehensive review of Income – Tax Act is
targeted at reducing disputes and litigations and to make the act lucid, concise and easy to read. Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs
Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman said that simplification of tax regimes without exemptions and deductions for corporate and personal income tax
has been appreciated by tax payers as over 58 per cent of corporate tax came from simplified tax regime in 2022-23 and more than two third
tax payers have switched over to the new personal income tax regime.

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 Budget 2024-25 increased standard deduction of salaried employees from ₹ 50,000/- to ₹ 75,000/- for those opting for new tax regime.
Similarly, deduction on family pension for pensioners enhanced from ₹ 15,000/- to ₹ 25,000/-. Assessments now, can be reopened beyond
three years up to 5 years from end of year of assessment, only if, the escaped income is more than ₹ 50 Lakh. The new tax regime rate
structure is also revised to give a salaried employee benefits up to ₹ 17,500/- in income tax.

Income Slabs Tax Rate

0 – 3 Lakh rupees NIL

3 – 7 Lakh rupees 5 per cent

7 – 10 Lakh rupees 10 per cent

10 – 12 Lakh rupees 15 per cent

12 – 15 Lakh rupees 20 per cent

Above 15 Lakh rupees 30 per cent

Table 1: New Tax Regime Tax Structure

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 To promote investment and foster employment, Budget has given boost to entrepreneurial spirit and start-up ecosystem, abolishing angel tax
for all classes of investors. Further, a simpler tax regime for foreign shipping companies operating domestic cruises is proposed looking at
the tremendous potential of cruise tourism. Foreign mining companies selling raw diamonds in the country can now benefit from safe harbor
rates which will benefit the diamond industry. Further, corporate tax rate on foreign companies reduced from 40 to 35 per cent to attract
foreign capital.
Budget further simplified the direct tax regime for charities, TDS rate structure and capital gains taxation. The two tax exemption regimes
for charities will be merged into one. 5 per cent TDS on many payments to be merged into 2 per cent TDS and 20 per cent TDS on
repurchase of units by mutual funds or UTI stands withdrawn. TDS rate on e-commerce operators reduced from 1 per cent to 0.1 per cent.
Now credit of TCS will be given on TDS deducted from salary. Budget decriminalized delay of payment of TDS up to the due date of filing
of TDS statement. Standard Operating Procedure soon for simplified and rationalized compounding guidelines for TDS defaults.

On Capital gains, short term gains shall henceforth attract a rate of 20 per cent on certain financial assets. Long term gains on all financial
and non-financial assets to attract 12.5 per cent rate. Limit of exemption of capital gains has been increased to ₹1.25 Lakh per year to benefit
lower and middle-income classes. Listed financial assets held for more than a year and unlisted assets (financial and non-financial) held for
more than two years to be classified as long term assets. Unlisted bonds and debentures, debt mutual funds and market linked debentures
will continue to attract applicable capital gains tax.

Acknowledging that GST has decreased tax incidence on common man and terming it as a success of vast proportions, Union Finance
Minister Smt Nirmala Sitharaman said that GST has reduced compliance burden and logistics cost for trade and industry. Now the
Government envisages further simplifying and rationalizing the tax structure to expand it to remaining sectors. Budget also proposed to
further digitalise and make paperless the remaining services of Customs and Income Tax including rectification and order giving effect to
appellate orders over the next two years.

Custom duties have been revised to rationalize and revise them for ease of trade and reduction of disputes. Giving relief to cancer patients,
Budget fully exempted three more cancer treating medicines from custom duties, namely, Trastuzumab Deruxtecan, Osimertinib and
Durvalumab. There will be reduction in Basic Customs Duty (BCD) on X-ray machines tubes and flat panel detectors. BCD on mobile
phones, Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA) and mobile chargers reduced to 15 per cent. To give a fillip to processing and refining of
critical minerals, Budget fully exempted custom duties on 25 rare earth minerals like lithium and reduced BCD on two of them. Budget
proposed to exempt capital goods for manufacturing of solar panels. To boost India’s seafood exports, BCD on broodstock, polychaete
worms, shrimps and fish feed reduced to 5 per cent. Budget will foster competitiveness of Indian leather and textiles articles of export. BCD
reduced from 7.5 per cent to 5 per cent in Methylene Diphenyl Diisocyanate (MDI) used for manufacture of spandex yarn. Custom duties on
gold and silver reduced to 6 per cent and on platinum to 6.4 per cent. BCD on ferro nickel and blister copper removed, while, BCD on
ammonium nitrate increased from 7.5 to 10 per cent to support existing and new capacities in pipeline. Similarly, BCD on PVC flex banners
increased from 10 to 25 per cent considering the hazard to environment. To incentivize domestic manufacturing, BCD on PCBA of specific
telecom equipments increased from 10 to 15 per cent.

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 For dispute resolution and dispose-off backlogs, Union Finance Minister proposed Vivad se Vishwas Scheme, 2024 for resolsution of certain
income tax disputes pending in appeal. The monetary limits for filing appeals related to direct taxes, excise and service tax in High Courts,
Supreme Courts and tribunals has been increased to ₹ 60 Lakh, ₹ 2 Crore and ₹ 5 Crore, respectively. Further to reduce litigation and
provide certainty in international taxation, scope of safe harbour rules to be expanded and transfer pricing assessment procedure to be
streamlined.

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