A live stream of the Budget is available here. Our notes, taken live, so subject to change: GST still a year away: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley mentioned that Goods & Services Tax (GST) will be applicable from April 1, 2016. "GST is expected to play a transformative role by creating a common market, have already introduced bill for same." What does GST implementation mean? #Budget2015 Follow live updates on: http://t.co/pony3EsNpW #GetBudgetSmart pic.twitter.com/R9BBOBqyOb — moneycontrol (@moneycontrolcom) February 28, 2015 Jan Dhan Aadhaar Mobile Trinity: A mobile-based payments platform to debit payments for various government schemes directly to the beneficiaries. The Minister however, didn't reveal any further details such as date of launch. #jandhan, #aadhar , mobile trinity will allow us to target benefits in leakage proof manner : @arunjaitley#Budget2015 — PIB India (@PIB_India) February 28, 2015 Make In India and plans for encouraging startups: The Minister clearly mentioned that the government will be encouraging entrepreneurship and views them as major job creators. It'll be interesting to see if he divulges further details of the government's plan regarding this. For example, some light on the Rs 10,000 crore startup fund announced during his budget speech last year, will be appreciated. #Budget2015 FM has stated clearly the Govt's focus on startups n entrepreneurship to make job creators not job seekers - music to my ears! — Kiran Mazumdar Shaw (@kiranshaw) February 28, 2015 Tech startups incubation program: To address concerns of entrepreneur community like access to seed funds, incubation, etc…
