The Budget's groundwork

The Indian economy in the first quarter of the current fiscal year shrank by a gargantuan 23.9%, followed by a better-than-expected contraction measuring 7.5%. According to the government's own estimates released in the Economic Survey (and in the revised estimates before that), the economy will get smaller to the tune of 7.7%.

Health is paramount too, as India steers the world's largest vaccination drive which started on January 16, and still has 1,68,235 active cases of COVID-19.