Budget without a Focus

Budget without a Focus C Rangarajan For the first time in independent India, a Budget was being presented at the Centre by a non-Con- gress government. Both the Janata election manifesto and the utterances of some of the prominent leaders of the party had raised expectations that the Budget would look different from its predecessors. However, it has come to pass that the present Budget breaks no new ground and conforms to the pattern set by the previous budgets.