Budget 2019 expectations: Infrastructure sector hopes for wider govt funding, tax breaks

India’s first woman Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to present this year’s Union Budget on July 5. This apparently would be her first major assignment ever since her appointment to finance ministry.

As usual, the government is expected to come out with fresh policies and amendments to existing schemes, impacting farmers to the middle class, entrepreneurs, professionals and corporates.

Investors have high hopes from the new government’s maiden budget against the backdrop of a strong election mandate.