The many firsts in Budget 2016
February 29, 2016  15:37
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Arun Jaitley's Budget 2016 has many firsts to its credit.

For the first time, the Budget speech, that is Part A, was in the national flag colours, with orange and green at the top and bottom.

For the first time, the key documents had icons as a visual aid, you can see them here:
(http://indiabudget.nic.in/ub2016-17/bh/bh1.pdf).

Also for the first time, the webcast of the finance minister's speech was put on the finance ministry's YouTube channel.

For the first time, officials from the Union finance ministry will take to Twitter and Facebook to answer questions online.For the first time, the finance ministry website has been designed with smartphones in mind.
If your device has adequate storage, you can now download the entire budget from this link:
http://indiabudget.nic.in  on to any phone, tablet or Kindle in .pdf format.

For the first time the finance minister did not read out either Tamil or Urdu couplets '" as has been the norm -- but quoted one famous Hindi proverb.

Nothing fancy, no claps, just a simple and straight-forward budget presentation, said a senior Union minister.
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