{"id":2284,"date":"2025-02-03T06:08:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T06:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aadhikarwarta.com\/?p=2284"},"modified":"2025-02-03T06:08:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T06:08:45","slug":"budget-2025-middle-class-relief-tourism-growth-and-missed-opportunities-for-food-processing-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aadhikarwarta.com\/?p=2284","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2025: Middle-Class Relief, Tourism Growth, and Missed Opportunities for Food Processing Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Union Budget 2025 has brought significant relief to the middle class by exempting income tax up to \u20b9 12 lakh, which will increase disposable income and stimulate economic activity. The focus on developing tourism sites linked to Gautam Buddha\u2019s life is a commendable step towards employment generation and positioning India as a global center of peace and cultural heritage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prioritizing agriculture, MSMEs, infrastructure, and middle-class welfare addresses key growth areas. However, GST relief and credit support for the food processing and bakery sector were missed opportunities. We hope this will be offset by increased consumer spending driven by lower tax rates for the salaried class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Sachin Malpani, Managing Director, Malpani\u2019s Bakelite, Pune<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Budget 2025 has brought significant relief to the middle class by exempting income tax up to \u20b9 12 lakh, which will increase disposable income and stimulate economic activity. The focus on developing tourism sites linked to Gautam Buddha\u2019s life is a commendable step towards employment generation and positioning India as a global center &#8230; <a title=\"Budget 2025: Middle-Class Relief, Tourism Growth, and Missed Opportunities for Food Processing Sector\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/aadhikarwarta.com\/?p=2284\" aria-label=\"Read more about Budget 2025: Middle-Class Relief, Tourism Growth, and Missed Opportunities for Food Processing Sector\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/aadhikarwarta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Untitled-design-22.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aadhikarwarta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aadhikarwarta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aadhikarwarta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aadhikarwarta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aadhikarwarta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aadhikarwarta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2286,"href":"https:\/\/aadhikarwarta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions\/2286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aadhikarwarta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aadhikarwarta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aadhikarwarta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aadhikarwarta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}