• Rs953,231 crore expenditure proposed
• Focus on consumer to drive development
• No tax changes in the budget speech
• Defence sector allocation set at Rs141,703 crore
• Rs1,31, 317 crore allocated to flagship programmes
• Subsidies to food, petroleum and fertiliser to go up
• Two new schemes - Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension and Indira Gandhi National Disability Pension schemes to be launched
• Rs8,300 crore earmarked for mid-day meal scheme
• Government to provide interest subsidy to farmers in 09-10.
• Rs1,200 crore for total sanitation programme
• Panchayat empowerment and accountability scheme to be substantially expanded
• Rs100 crore for unique identification authority
• Revenue deficit for 2009-10 estimated at 4 per cent and fiscal defict at 5.5 per cent of GDP

Fiscal 2008-09

• Farm credit disbursements up 300 per cent  at Rs250,000 crore in 2007-08
   Rs65,300 crore debt waiver and relief given to 36 million farmers
• Rural infrastructure development fund corpus increased to Rs14,000 crore in 2008-09
• 6 million houses for weaker sections constructed under Indira Awaas Yojana
• 15 central universities established, 6 new IITs start functioning; two more to commence this year
• Financial sector reforms strengthen regulatory mechanism of securities market
• NPAs of public sector banks decline
• CPSEs turnover increases from Rs5,87,000 crore in 2003-04 to Rs10,81,000 crore in 2007-08
• Fiscal deficit down from 4.5 per cent in 2003-04 to 2.7 per cent in 2007-08
• FDI for 2007-08 at $32.4 billion.