India Budget 2012

The advent of Internet and WWW has brought content - professional, academic, corporate, user-generated and also junk - to the Net surfers. The content in the form of text, images and video presents various topics for effective consumption of the users. The topics range from news to entertainment to complaints and fun & learning for kids. There are numerous sites on the Net which offer professional content for free, http://moneycontrol.com being one such site. This site offers comprehensive information about finances especially the stock markets.

India being one of the key emerging markets, every Indian would be interested to know what is happening with the union budget 2012. With slowdown in economy growth and debacle in recent elections, union budget would be of more interest this time around. I found moneycontrol site (http://www.moneycontrol.com/budget2012/) to offer good information about the upcoming budget. Check out the key economic indicators and pre-budget reports from some of the stock brokers like ICICIDirect in this site.

Some of the key dates you need to remember:

Railway Budget	March 14 2012
Economic Survey	March 15 2012
Union Budget	March 16 2012

If you are looking for comprehensive information about previous budgets, you can access them at http://indiabudget.nic.in/. As budget has impact on every individual - professional, retired, home-maker, businessman or NRI, it's important to follow the same.

I really wonder, how people used to follow the budget (just the newspapers? Radio? Doordarshan?) in pre-Internet eras :-)