From left and clockwise: Nirmal Jain, Founder, IIFL Group; Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group; Jairam Varadaraj, Managing Director of Elgi Equipments; R. Dinesh, Chairman, TVS Supply Chain Solutions Limited; P. B. Balaji, Group CFO at Tata Motors Ltd.; Lakshminarayanan Duraiswamy, MD, Sundaram Home Finance; R. Nandini, Managing Director of Chandra Group, and Chairperson of CII – Southern Region.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2024-25 on July 23, 2024, stressing on her government’s nine priorities.

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Ms. Sitharaman said that the Budget will focus on productivity and resilience in agriculture, employment and skilling, inclusive human resource development and social justice, manufacturing and services, support for promotion of MSMEs, urban development, energy security, infrastructure, innovation, research and development.

Here is a collection of all the Viewpoint columns in The Hindu where industry leaders react to the Union Budget 2024.