Budget 2024: All you need to know about Blue Economy, Experts take on revisions made in Budget

While the FM proposed no changes to the tax slabs in the Budget, there were few policy revisions announced. Among the major announcements included a capital outlay of over Rs 2.5 lakh crore for the Indian railways. The govt also hiked the gross budgetary allocation for railway infrastructure projects in the northeast for the FY25 to Rs 10,369 crore, which remained 388 per cent higher than the average budget allocation of Rs 2,122 crore during the 2009-14 period, Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday.