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My Budget: Prahlad Kakar

The noted ad film maker says investment in infrastructure - power, roads and more - is commendable

Expect 50-75-bp rate cut in 2015: Keki Mistry

Budget for the future: Arundhati Bhattacharya

FMC-Sebi merger was needed: Samir Shah

This will pave the way for widening the scope of participation by banks, foreign institutional investors, mutual funds, etc, in the commodity exchanges

Little on offer for steel industry: Dilip Oommen

For the steel industry, the Budget has little to offer directly, barring a provision to raise the import duty on steel and a reduction in import duty to two per cent on scrap

Budget was a tightrope walk: Pratik Gupta

Says the FM balanced the imperatives of fiscal consolidation and of the need to increase public investment

A Budget with a nine-pointer flair: Prashant Jain

Says revenue assumptions are conservative and realistic

Impetus for manufacturing: Baba Kalyani

Says the Budget reflects an intention to put economy on the path of double-digit growth

Supportive of 'Make in India': Ravi Uppal

Says massive commitments to reboot the infrastructure sector could be significant growth drivers

An industry-friendly Budget: T V Narendran

GST timeline was the best feature: Pawan Goenka

Setting up AIIMS look-alikes in other states might not help: Dipankar Gupta

The brightest spot in the Budget in social sector spending is in education

My Budget: Rohan Bopanna

It's disappointing to see that there is no allocation or subsidy for sports as we are working towards the Olympics to be held next year

My Budget: Prasad Bidapa

My Budget: Paresh Maity

The artist says the Budget is comprehensive and futuristic

My Budget: Rina Dhaka

My Budget: Vir Das

My Budget: Dipika Pallikal

My Budget: Mahesh Bhupathi

Says it would have been great if the Budget had provided tax holidays to international sporting events

My Budget: Indrani Dasgupta

The model terms the Budget as pro-growth