The pandemic has made life difficult for commoners but providing any relief is not on the government's agenda. The rich stands to gain more. That the government introduced no relief measures for the middle class, salaried and poor. India's salaried class and middle class were hoping for relief in times of pandemic, all round pay-cuts and back-breaking inflation. The measures taken by the government in the Budget for the welfare of the farm sector and agriculture sector is nil. The employees and the trading community were looking forward to a change in the income tax slabs. With coronavirus in the backdrop, no efforts were put into developing the medical and health sector in the country. It is surprising that the central government is not bothered about public health. The whole Budget speech by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is full of hollowness, visionless and directionless. This whole Budget is nothing for common people, who are getting crushed by unemployment, price rise and inflation. People had high expectations from the budget. But it has become anti-people budget and a golmal budget.
K G Vilop, Chorao
