Budget Reports
A blow-by-blow coverage of Budget 2001 proposals including new programmes, policy initiatives, and direct and indirect taxes

Budget Reactions
Muthukrishnan, vice president, Chettinad Cements
S Muralidharan, vice president & secretary, Amrutanjan
Dr.E.G.Mahadevan, chairman, IDL Industries
Somnath Chatterjee, secretary-general, ELCINA
Shantanu Rudra, CFO, Mahindra British Telecom
G.Venkateswaran, chairman and managing director, G.V. Films
S. N. Rajan, chief investment officer, Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund
Milind Barve, managing director, HDFC Mutual Fund
Prakash Bajpai, president & managing director, Hughes Tele.com
I.A.Modi, chairman, Cadila Pharmaceuticals
C Jayaram, executive director, Kotak Mahindra Finance
Anil Harish, partner, D M Harish & Co.
Dinesh Kanabar, partner, RSM & Co.
Siva Kumar, head of research, Cholamandalam Securities
Deepak K. Singhania, managing director, LML
Kalpathi S. Suresh, chairman & CEO, SSI
Anand Radhakrishnan, fund manager, Sundaram Newton Asset Management
Jyotindra B.Mody, chairman and managing director, J.B.Chemicals
Rajesh R Gupte, managing director, Lloyds Steel
V. Chandrasekaran, managing director, Mascot Systems
K.S. Ananthanarayanan, chief financial officer, Mascot Systems
Subhrakant Panda, joint managing director, Indian Charge Chromium, director, Indian Metals & Ferro Alloys Group
Deepak Puri, managing director, Moser Baer India
Siddhartha Ray, managing director, Data Access India
R Seshasayee, managing director, Ashok Leyland, Vice President, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM)
Girish Rangan, executive director, BPL Mobile Communications
Praveen Mohnot, managing director, OTCEI (Over The Counter Exchange of India)
Shailendra Bhandari, managing director, Prudential ICICI Asset Management
S V Prasad, president, Zurich AMC
Joseph Massey, managing director, Inter-Connected Stock Exchange of India
Dr.R.H. Patil, director, National Stock Exchange.
R L Pai, vice president, Indian National Shipowners` Association
Suresh Gupta, managing director, Paper Products
R Rajagopalan, managing director, Wellwin Industries
P K Chand, senior vice president, finance, Birla Corporation
Arun Kumar, president and managing director, Hughes Software Systems
Ganesh Natarajan, ex-managing director, Aptech
Arun Jain, chairman and CEO, Polaris Software Lab
Ved Prakash Chaturvedi, chief executive officer, Cholamandalam Mutual Funds
Avinash Gorashakar, equity dealer, Emkay Shares & Stock Brokers
Darshan Engineer, equity dealer, Phoenix Shares & Stock Brokers
Vineet Bhatnagar, managing director, Refco-Sify Securities
Ravi Mohan, managing director, Crisil.
Infosys Technologies
Dr.V.Chandrasekaran, chairman & CEO, Pentamedia Graphics
J S Khorakiwala, executive director, Wockhardt
Gopakumar G.Nair, chairman & managing director, Bombay Drugs & Pharma.
Captain C.P.Krishnan Nair, chairman, The Leela group
Niranjan Hiranandani, managing director, Hiranandani Constructions

Quote unquote
Some pearls of wisdom from Union Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha

New Programmes in 2001-02
Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha rolled out a list of new schemes for the common man. The Ashraya Bima Yojana and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan are to name a few

Direct Taxes
New proposals and changes over Budget 2000-01

Indirect Taxes
New proposals and changes over Budget 2000-01

Sector-specific
Budget 2001-02 impact on Commercial Vehicles, Passenger Cars, Two-wheelers, Telecom, Refinery, Hardware and more.

Corporate Impact
MNC associates and PSUs to benefit most from direct tax proposals

Capital Markets
A booster dose to revive the sluggish secondary and primary markets.

Mutual Funds
Investing in Mutual Funds? Read how the budget could affect you.

Nuggets
Sinha had estimated his revenue and expenditure for 2000-01 in Budget 2000. Did he live up to his own expectations?

Personal Finance
Read what the budget means to you as an individual