Budget 2025-26: Finance Minister announces measures for making India a global toy hub

Budget 2025 Announcement: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, presenting the eighth consecutive Budget of the NDA government, shared the blueprint of a 'Viksit Bharat' and made cardinal announcements, centering chiefly connected 4 cardinal segments -- women, youth, farmers, and the poor.

The Finance Minister announced implementation of schemes to facilitate and standard up artifact manufacturing, frankincense giving an impetus to the 'Make successful India' campaign.

She besides announced the mounting up of a artifact manufacturing ecosystem and clusters for creating skilled labour.

FM Sitharaman highlighted that this is the fund to conscionable the aspirations of the GYAN (Garib, Yuva, Annadata and Nari shakti) the poor, farmers, women and the youth.

Underlining the government's absorption connected empowering the marginalised, she announced a caller strategy for 5 lakh women, SCs, STs, wherever first-time entrepreneurs volition beryllium fixed loans up to Rs 2 crore.

She announced societal information for 1 crore gig workers and besides informed that ID cards would beryllium issued to gig workers to avail authorities services.

For the agriculture sector, she announced measures, aimed astatine benefitting 1.75 crore farmers successful the country

“Motivated by the occurrence of the Aspirational Districts Programme, the Centre successful collaboration with authorities governments, volition motorboat the Prime Minister Krishi Yojana to heighten cultivation development," said FM Sitharaman.

Besides a slew of announcements, the Finance Minister besides disclosed transformative reforms crossed 6 domains, which volition augment the country's maturation imaginable and planetary competitiveness. The domains include: Taxation, powerfulness sector, municipality development, mining, fiscal assemblage and regulatory reforms.

The Budget Session of Parliament, which commenced connected Friday, volition beryllium conducted successful 2 phases. The archetypal started connected January 31 and volition reason connected February 13, portion the 2nd signifier volition statesman connected March 10 and extremity connected April 4.