Punjab budget 2018 Highlights: From new income tax, free books, sanitary pads to fiscal consolidation, all you want to know
Punjab budget 2018: Among the ones that turned eye-ball grabbers was the proposal to impose a development tax of Rs 200 per month on income taxpayees . Budget 2018, the government said, is intended to focus on fiscal consolidation. The state finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal, while presenting the budget in the Assembly, said the focus was on putting the economy back on rails over the next two years
Punjab budget 2018: The total budget size was Rs 1,29,698 crore; effective size is Rs 1,02,198 crore. Image source: PTI