What's Costly and What's Cheap? 10 Takeaways from Budget 2016

BENGALURU: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s third budget announcement highlights the stability of the Indian economy and at the same time keeps a special arena for rural India, which of course gives away a political message of the union government. However the big fat converges of the Union Budget’16 by different media houses is missing out to pin point its pros and cons from a common man’s view. How exactly will their financial plans be affected with this budget of 2016?

Here’s a special report as listed by Top10wala.in highlighting ten areas that witnessed either a hike or a drop in its existing price models.

Price Hike for following:

Laptop, Desktop and Tablets

Mobile phone manufacturers are not happy with this budget as the government levies 2pct special additional duty (SAD) on populated printed circuit boards (PCBs) used in all cellphones, laptops and desktops. This is expected to bring in a 5pct hike in mobile handset prices. Pankaj Mohindroo, President of Indian Cellular Association shares, “With the levy, the price of domestically made phones will go up by one per cent. We would request government to roll back this duty.”
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