New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- When India's Union Budget 2026 was tabled, much of the initial conversation revolved around headline numbers, sectoral allocations, and political signalling. But beneath the surface, a subtler shift is underway, one that reframes technology not as an enabler of growth but as the operating system through which growth is executed.

Here's Arundhati Bhattacharya, President & CEO, Salesforce South Asia, sharing her views on the Union Budget 2026: what really nails this shift is less hype and more hard truth about where India's tech story is headed.

What stands out is not the ambition of the number but the mechanism being proposed: intelligence embedded into economic infrastructure itself.

The most under-discussed lever ...