UNION BUDGET 2021 From a common man perspective there was an expectation that there would be some sort of covid access or wealth tax or some provision that will transfer wealth from the individual's pocket to the government . In a major relief to all unlike previous budgets there was no major changes in tax this year. instead what we got was a budget built around health hope and growth . Health care and wellness Allocating 3.2 lakh 83 thousand crores this was an increase of 137 percent over last year and the money will be used to setup 30,000 rural and urban . health and wellness centres. In the 2,83,000 crores 35,000 crores has been allocated for vaccine (corona). by the way finance minister gave a commitment of providing additional funds if required. Growth and investment : MANUFACTURING: Laid out proposals for creation of mega textiles parks over three years. INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE: One of the increase of FDI from the current 49% to 74% in insurance companies with some guar
HOW DO YOU MEASURE THE SIZE OF AN ENTIRE ECONOMY ? let's say i buy a coffee here in Hyderabad for RS 15 those RS 15 are factored into the India's GDP In fact most of what's around you is part of GDP GDP is an important gauge of the overall health of an economy . Its stands for gross domestic product simply puts , GDP measures the total valve of all goods and services in a country . that means it measures a lot of stuff worth a lot of money. 2019, GDP in India was at around 2.59 trillion U.S. dollars. In the US , the world's biggest economy , It's around $ 19 trillion every year. HOW DO YOU GET THESE NUMBERS ? well you calculate GDP in a few different ways , but the commonly used this equation goes like GDP = C+ I+ G+ NX C= CONSUMPTION I= INVESTMENT G= GOVERNMENT SPENDING NX =NET EXPORTS CONSUMPTION is another way of saying consumer spending. it's the money you or i spend on physical goods like coffee , and on services like haircut .