Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday proposed more than doubling of healthcare spending while imposing a new agri cess on certain imported goods and raising customs duty on items ranging from cotton to electronics in a bid to pull the economy out of the trough.

BusinessLine 's Aarati Krishnan gives a macroeconomic perspective of the Union Budget 2021-2022.

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