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Great work for the 8th year, Ms Sitharaman. Thank you! It’s great to see the budget from an educational, entrepreneurial and national lens. As a woman writer who runs a foundation for autism- my country, my country’s children and my family’s sustainability hold utmost importance to me. It’s great to see the Udaan Scheme and the centre stage focus on Bihar, but it’s excellent to see continued focus on skilling youth, growing the Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0 programme to provide support to over 8 crore children and marrying curriculum to workforce demands. While these numbers and need sound large, the work at the last leg will only see fruit if we can leverage technology well to upskill forces to the last leg. It’s also great to see a huge focus on AI and AI in healthcare management and a huge budget allocated to more tinkering labs, India is very hands on by culture, this is crucial. More seats and money allocated to India’s strengths- our IITs and medical schools is also a promising budgetary allocation.

It’s also really good to see a revised and invigorated focus on our women, farmers and medium-small enterprises which contribute to 45% of our exports and our startup machinery- with all the educational, export and skilling measures, it’ll help boost the middle classes a lot further in turn accelerating their daily wages and earnings. India’s patriarchy and archaic educational system trickles in all we do, so a continued focus on women, youth and agriculture is so important. Keeping the GYAN scheme on the forefront as an honest and important lever of growth could be highly beneficial for us and important in keeping us a growing economy.
The flatness of the Saturday stock market and moans of the opposition and wealthy income tax payers will soon quieten. Overall I’m a pleased worker, woman and citizen.