Our focus will be on energising our youth to reap the benefits of growth and employment,” said finance minister Arun Jaitley in his budget speech on Wednesday. To drive home the commitment in the budget, the government doubled the lending target of the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana to Rs 2.44 lakh crore. In a sense this budget has tried to show the middle and poor sections of society that good days are here. It is also a great election rhetoric,” said Sandeep Shastri, a Bengaluru-based political scientist and pro-vice chancellor of Jain University. He added, “This is a budget that has tried to give sops to sections of the society which are starting to grow impatient.”

Source: Mint February 01, 2017 22:30 UTC