Zee Business Modi Boosters-Budget Adda 2018: A live open forum of Zee Business

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Institute of Technology and Science, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad attended an open forum telecasted live by Zee Business – A leading Business News and Current Affairs channel on 1st February, 2018. Around Fifty ITS students including PGDM and MBA 1st year participated along with Prof. Hitesh Chadha and Prof. Parul Gupta by reaching at the venue of live shoot at Central Park, Inner Circle, Connaught Place, New Delhi. Zee provided Cabs to pick and drop and we reached around 19 hours and returned back by 23 hours to the institute after having diiner provided by the channel officials.

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February

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2018

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Thursday, February 1, 2018

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The theme title of this initiative by Zee Business was Modi Boosters-Budget Adda-2018 which was to be telecasted live starting at 20 hours till 21:30 hours. It was an open forum especially designed for the public to attend and participate in the discussion by various panelists on Budget-2018.It was the day when Budget was announced in Parliament by honorable Finance Minister Mr. Arun Jaitly.

The live open session was formatted in two sections where two sets of panelists including Congress spokesperson Mr.Alok Sharma,, Dr. Rajiv Kumar –Vice Chairman Planning Commission on Video Conferencing Mr. Taneja from Kotak Mahindra,Ms.Rinki Dhingra-Senior Vice President of Yes Bank,Mr. Chawla-a senior independent observer of financial affairs and many more experts in this area. The major focus of discussions was on:

1. Increased Fiscal Deficits

2. Short and Long term Capital Gains structure post budget announcement and its effects

3. Slag in Real Estate and other allied Industries

4. Impact of Common Budget and rail budget announcements on lower ands middle class in Indian Society

5. Minimum Support Price (1.5%) and its impact on Agricultural Farming in near future

6. Congress Vs BJP comparison in reducing the general and food inflation

7. Neglected sectors in current budget

8. Demonetization and GST after effects in framing current budget by BJP Government

9. New health Insurance Scheme for vulnerable sector up to five lacs as the largest Social Security System ever launched by any country in the world.

Finally the session lasted for one and half hours live and students and public were allowed to ask relevant questions from the panels .ITS students participated in Q&A session with full zeal and enthusiasm.