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Filmmaker Sudhir Mishra's take on the best and worst things in Budget 2019

Employment needs to be rethought because mechanisation is going to lead to fewer jobs

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and MoS Anurag Thakur arrive at Parliament to present the Union Budget 2019-20 | Photo: PTI
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and MoS Anurag Thakur arrive at Parliament to present the Union Budget 2019-20 | Photo: PTI

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What is the best thing about the Budget?

Those that are more fortunate should contribute more. We have duties so that the less fortunate may have more rights. So higher surcharge for taxable income upwards of Rs 2 crore is a good idea.  

And the worst?

As usual, what interests me is absent, like culture, education, and research. For 30 years now budgets have not addressed things that are not profitable in the immediate sense. But the way I understand it, education and culture combined are connected to ‘growth’, to the growth of the mind of a nation.

Will it
Topics : budget 2019