No more gloom as Budget 2017 gives people many reasons to cheer: Know how

Call it a populist budget or a socialist one, Modi government has put in every effort to cast away gloom that had settled in post demonetisation move. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday presented a historic budget - since this was the first one in 92 years, which merged Railway Budget to the Union one.

A comprehensive budget from the Finance Minister was anticipated owing to the upcoming Assembly elections in Goa, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Manipur and Uttarakhand. commenting on the Budget, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, "this Budget is yet again devoted to the well-being of the villages, farmers and the poor"

While the common man has many reasons to be happy about, Jaitley certainly did wipe the smile off politicians' face across all parties.

Here are some goodies handed out by the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley:

• Income Tax reduction
• Service Tax on Train bookings
• For villages, poor
• Health
• Farmers
• Minority, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes
• Senior citizens
• Politicians - may frown