- No changes to personal income tax slabs
- Salaried tax payers to get standard deduction of Rs.40,000 in lieu of transport allowance and “other medical expenses
- ₹2,000 crore fund for development of agri market
- All senior citizens will now be able to claim benefit of a deduction of ₹50,000 for any medical insurance
- For critical illnesses, the deduction has been increased to ₹1,00,000
- Free power connections to 4 crore homes under Saubhagya Yojana
- 8 crore free gas connection for poor women through Ujjwala Yojana
- to implement Minimum Support Price for all crops; MSP hiked to 1.5 times of production costs
- Govt to contribute 12% of wages of new employees for all sectors
- New Flagship National Health Protection Scheme, providing health insurance cover of ₹5 lakh per family per year announced
- Railway capex for the year 2018-19 set at ₹1.48 lakh crore
- Disinvestment target for this year set at ₹80,000 crore
- Automatic revision of emoluments Parliamentarians every five years, pegged to inflation
