Mint’s comprehensive coverage of the 2021 Union Budget. We are calling it Road to Recovery.Also read: Why your health plan premium is suddenly spikingOver the next seven weeks in the run-up to the Union Budget, we will bring you offerings across platforms and formats—coverage, commentary, infographics and special features in print; augmented with interactives, live events, video and audio, on www.livemint.com.India’s budget-making is a balancing act at the confluence of impossibly competing demands at the best of times.
Under current circumstances, the stakes are raised manifold by the need to support livelihoods, alleviate distress and boost demand.Not since 1979-80 has the Indian economy contracted for the full year.