Budget 2017 in Pictures

Salient features of the budget for 2017-18 explained through these snapshots

Feb 01, 2017, 13:15 IST1 min

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People look at a screen displaying the Sensex on the facade of the BSE building in Mumbai on February 1, 2017. India’s stock markets gave a thumbs up to Budget 2017, with the benchmark 30-share Sensex jumping 485.68 points, or 1.76 percent, to close the day at 28,141.64

Image by Shailesh Andrade/Reuters

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A worker walks over giant pieces of concrete that will be used to make tunnels for the metro railway, at a casting yard in Chennai. Arun Jaitley announced a new Metro Rail Act that will facilitate greater private participation and investment in construction and operation of metros trains as part of his budget speech on February 1, 2017.

Image by Babu/Reuters

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The site of an affordable housing project at Boisar, Maharashtra by Tata housing. Budget 2017 gave the affordable housing sector infrastructure status. The move is likely to open up a plethora of financing options to the sector and make it easier and cheaper for low-cost housing companies to access capital.

Image by Vikas Khot