Following are highlights of the budget:

* Plan expenditure will be 29.4% more than revised estimates in the current year

* Budget for 2013-14 has one overarching goal-to create opportunities for youth to get skills to get jobs,and adequate incomes

* Made sufficient allocation for programmes relating to women an children

* Single women and widows must be able to live with dignity; WCD has been asked to design schemes

* Funds for the sub-funds cannot be diverted

* FM: Rs. 110 crore to be allocated to department of disability

* The new national health mission will get 24.5% increase over the RE

* Rs. 150 cr to be provided for geriatric growth

* Allocation for HRD 17% over the RE of the current year

* Thousand of scholarships for students belongs to SC, STs, and disadavantaged classes

* Focus will continue to be on early childhood care

* Multisectoral programme to fight malnutrition will be implemented; Rs. 300 crore to be allocated; 100 districts to be covered

* Rs. 33,000 crore to be allocated to MNREGA

* Will allocate Rs. 17,700 crore to Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme

* JNNURM is being continued in the 12th Plan; Rs. 14,873 crore to be provided to the Mission

* A large part of the JNNURM to be spent on purchase of buses especially in the hilly areas

* Farmers have responded to the price signals and produced more; Rs. 27,049 cr to be allocated to the agriculture ministry

* Assam, Bihar, Chattisgarh and WB have increased rice production

* Small and marginal farmers vulnerable everyone; watershed management crucial; Rs. 5387 cr allocated for Integrated Watershed Programme

* Indian Institute of BioTechnology to be set up at Ranchi

* Proposal to provide Rs. 500 crore to start programme on crop diversification

* 45% hike in rural budget allocation

* The National Livestock Mission will be launched in 2013. Rs. 307 crore to be provided for the Mission

* The National Food Security Bill is the promise of the UPA Govt, sincerely hope that Parliament will pass the Bill soon

* The key to restart growth is to restart the investment engine; will remove any apprehension in the minds of investors

* Need new and innovative funds to mobilise investment

* Need to improve communication of policies to remove distrust and fear among investors

* Propose to seek help of ADB and WB to invest in roads in NE states and connect them to Myanmar

* The road construction sector faces challenges not envisaged earlier including financial stress; Regulatory Authority to be set up

* Cabinet Committee on Investment has been set up to monitor and guide the projects to remove bottlenecks

* Marginal increase in allocation for food subsidy

* Rs. 15,260 crore to be allocated to ministry of drinking water and sanitation

* The household sector must be incentivised to save in financial instruments

* Rs. 25000 crore to be raised from four infrastructure bonds

* The Delhi Mumbai Industrial Project has made rapid projects; work on 2 new smart industrial cities will start during 2013-14

* Proposal to bring instruments that will protect (the country) from inflation

* The next corridor will be the Bengaluru-Mumbai Industrial corridor

* Marginal increase in allocation for food subsidy

* 5 inland waterways have been declared as national waterways

* Income level for Rajiv Gandhi Equity Scheme raised by Rs. 2 lakh

* Additional interest deduction upto 1 lakh for home loan upto Rs. 25 lakhs during FY 14. Deduction available on first home loan

* Delhi Mumbai Industrial Project has made rapid progress

* Semiconductor sector given boost with zero customs duty on import of plant and machinery

* Activities on NELP blocks to kick start

* The natural gas pricing policy will be reviewed; any LP blocks that have been stalled will be cleared

* Inflation indexed bonds and NSCs to be introduced

* Srinagar to Leh to be connected via a new highway

* The govt has approved a scheme for financial restructuring of discoms; urge state govts to prepare the plans immediately

* We need to reduce dependence on imported coal, despite abundunt coal reserves we continue to import coal

* MSMEs: too many of them do not grow due to fear of losing benefits, propose to give them them non-tax benefits for 3 years

* Propose to continue with the technology upgradation funds scheme for the textile sector, environmental concerns of the textile industry to be taken care of

* 150,000 individual weavers will benefit in this year, propose to allocate an addl sum of Rs. 96 crore for ministry of textiles

* Propose to constitute a standing counsel of experts to analyse the competitiveness of the Indian sector

* In 2013-14, propose to provide Rs. 14000 crore for capital infusion in public sector banks

* PSBs have assured me that all their branches will have an ATM by 2013-14

* Capital infusion to public sector banks to be increased in FY 14

* 13 public sector banks to get Rs. 14000 crore

* Propose to set up India's first women's bank as a Public Sector Bank; propose to provide Rs. 1000 crore as initial capital

* Propose to provide Rs. 600 cr to rural housing fund in 2013-14

* Insurance companies will be able to start branches in Tier 2 cities and below, without approval of IRDA

* The insurance amendement bill and the PFRDA bills are before the house; hope that they will be passed soon

* Income limit for the tax-saving Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme raised to Rs. 12 lakh from Rs. 10 lakh

* Domestic workers, Anganwadi workers, etc to get group insurance

* SEBI will simplify procedures for entry of foreign portfolio investors to invest in India

* The list of eligible securities will be enlarged

* KYC of banks will be enough to get insurance

* All towns of India with a population of over 10000 to have an LIC office

* Low interest bearing funds for clean / green energy sector. Generation-based incentives for wind energy

* Will encourage cities to take up waste-energy projects through PPPs

* Present criteria for determining backwardness will be changed; propose to frame new criteria

* Defence spending at Rs. 2,20,000 crore, Rs. 86721 crore for capital expenditure

* Rs. 5400 crore to department of space and Rs. 5600 crore to department of atomic energy

* With help of Ministry of S&T,I have identified amazing innovations; Will allocate Rs. 200 crore to scale them & make them avaiable to people

* National Institute of Sports Coaching to be set up at Patiala

* Cities with population of more than 1 lakh will be covered with private FM channel providers, 294 more cities to be connected by FM radio

* Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana to include rickshaw pullers, taxi drivers and ragpickers

* Post offices to beome part of core banking solutions

* Nirbhaya Fund with a corpus of 1000 crore to be set up for girl child welfare

* Ambitious targets of skilling 15 million people in the 12th plan

* Skill trained will be given boost in employment and producitvity; 10 lakh youth can be motivated in one year

* Planned expenditure to be 33% of total expenditure

* Assure that the Direct Benefit Transfer scheme will be rolled out during the term of the UPA govt

* Redeem our promise by 2016-17 and bring down fiscal deficit to 3% and revenue deficit to 1.5%

* The fiscal deficit for the current year has been contained at 5.2%

* No revision in the slabs, relief for tax payers

* Surcharge of 10% for taxable incomes above Rs. 1 crore

* Tax credits of Rs. 2000 to every person who has total income upto Rs. 5 lakh

* Education cess to continue at 3%

* Surcharge of 5% to 10% on companies whose income exceeds 10 crore per year

* There are 42,800 persons in the country who admitted to a taxable income exceeding Rs. 1 crore per year

* Donations made to National Children's Fund will now be 100% deductible

* Contributions to the CGHS are eligible for deduction

* Rate of tax on payments by way of royalty increased from 10% to 25%

* Modified provisions of GAAR will come into effect from 1.04.2016

* Commodity Transaction Tax to be introduced in limited way

* Direct taxes code is work in progress

* Imported luxury goods to get costly

* Increase import duty to increase from 5% to 10% to encourage production of set top boxes in the country

* ST does not apply to AC restaurants that do not serve liquor at present; now all AC restaurants will have to pay service tax

* SUVs occupy more road and parking space and ought to bear higher tax: excise duty rate to be increased from 27% to 30%

* Increase in import duty on high-end motor vehicles from 75% to 100%; and on motorcylces from 60% to 75%

* Wish to encourage large number of assesees to return to the tax fold

* Serious intent of the govt to pass a GST law, need for state and central govt to pass a GST law

* 4% excise duty on silver manufactured from smelting, zinc or lead

* Specific excise duty on cigarettes increased by 18%

* Ships and vessels exempted from excise duty

* Donations made to National Children's Fund will now be 100% deductible

* Contributions to the CGHS are eligible for deduction

* Rate of tax on payments by way of royalty increased from 10% to 25%

* ST does not apply to AC restaurants that do not serve liquor at present; now all AC restaurants will have to pay service tax

* Wish to encourage large number of assesees to return to the tax fold

* Serious intent of the govt to pass a GST law, need for state and central govt to pass a GST law

* By 2025, we could become a $5-trillion economy