Union Budget 2026-27 Focuses on Growth, Innovation, and Fiscal Prudence Amid Challenges

As India prepares for the Union Budget 2026-27, stakeholders across sectors emphasize growth, innovation, and fiscal prudence amid global and domestic challenges. Key priorities include boosting defence capital expenditure and exports, supporting agriculture with higher allocations and R&D, extending tax incentives for manufacturing and electric vehicles, and enhancing education quality and skill development. Investors seek alignment between fiscal discipline and growth measures to sustain market confidence. Startups call for sustained support in AI and deeptech, while tax reforms aim to simplify regimes and address capital gains complexities.