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Budget with eye on elections: Yashwant Sinha

Health, education could have done with more

Allocations for schemes remain by and large constant

Allies, Opposition united in slamming Budget

Congress leaders counter criticism, point to aam aadmi sops

My Budget: Devi Shetty

Surcharge on the rich is modest: C Rangarajan

Rs 40k-crore shortfall in tax revenues

FM hopes to raise Rs 18,000 crore more next fiscal

Immunity boost for service tax

FM estimates 35% jump partly through one-year voluntary disclosure scheme

Sunita Narain: Just words, no action

The FM wants credit for acting on environment, but does the wrong things

Sukumar Mukhopadhyay: The wrong way to raise revenue

This Budget should have reduced exemptions, not raised tax rates

Mukesh Butani: A Budget with balance

But Mr Chidambaram could have done more to calm investors

Bank KYC enough to buy insurance policies

However, you will still be expected to submit KYC if your general insurance premium is above Rs 1 lakh

Inflation-beaters in the works

Though still in discussion stage, these instruments can be supplements to gold

Abheek Barua: Not a game-changer, but not trivial

Akash Prakash: Net-net, a non-event for the markets

Major subsidies to decline 11% in FY14

But oil, food, fertiliser may belie Chidambaram's optimistic estimates

Subir Gokarn: The impossible trinity?

The Budget tried to please politicians, rating agencies and reformists, and let them all down - slightly

Rs 9k-cr compensation paves way for GST

Puts ball in states' court, reiterates commitment to DTC

Higher spend on low base

Plan expenditure curbs for FY13 helps FM's outlay math for FY14

Responsible and pragmatic: Amitabh Chaudhry

There has been a high level of focus on financial and capital markets with a slew of measures

Ticks the right boxes: Rajiv Anand