Bhubaneswar, Jan. 27 -- With just about four days to go for Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to present the Union budget, farmers, backward classes and middle-class families are eagerly looking forward to it.

What the common people expect from the budget are reductions in the prices of essential commodities, income tax rebates on hard-earned money, employment scope for youths and social security for the elderly.

"The focus of the budget should be on increasing the savings of the middle-class people. We want an increase in the income tax slab and a decrease in fuel price," said Soubhagya Deo, a Bhubaneswar resident.Another city dweller Shekhawat Khan said, "We are having problems running our families. Fuel price keeps on increasing. I...