Gurgaon, Feb. 1 -- The Budget of 2025-26 was presented by the Finance Minister today. It contained many features for the middle class, youth, farmers and for women. It appears that the recent political campaigns by different parties going on in Delhi had an impact on the government's framing of the economic policies for this financial year. These segments have been in major focus in these campaigns.

Apart from these segments mentioned above, MSMEs were given a special mention in the budget.

Schemes such as issuing of credit cards with a limit of 5 lakhs to the MSMEs, increase of credit availablity from 5 crores to 10 crores and revision of classification criteria for MSMEs are some important steps taken in this budget. According to the ...