UNION BUDGET 2025-26

Important One Liners

• Government to launch a 6-year “Mission for Aatmanirbharta in Pulses” with focus on Tur, Urad and Masoor. NAFED and NCCF to procure these pulses from farmers during the next 4 years.

• A Makhana Board to be established in Bihar to improve production, processing, value addition, and marketing of makhana.

• The loan limit under the Modified Interest Subvention Scheme to be enhanced from ₹3 lakh to ₹5 lakh for loans taken through the KCC.

• A plant with annual capacity of 12.7 lakh metric tons to be set up at Namrup, Assam.

• Customized Credit Cards with ₹5 lakh limit for micro enterprises registered on Udyam portal, 10 lakh cards to be issued in the First year.

• A new scheme for 5 lakh women, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes first-time entrepreneurs to provide term-loans upto ₹ 2 crore in the next 5 years announced.

• A National Institute of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management to be set up in Bihar.

• Bharatiya Bhasha Pustak Scheme announced to provide digital-form Indian language books for school and higher education.

• Greenfield airports announced in Bihar, in addition to the expansion of the capacity of Patna airport and a brownfield airport at Bihta.

• The FDI limit for the insurance sector to be raised from 74 to 100 per cent, for those companies which invest the entire premium in India.

• No personal income tax payable upto income of Rs 12 lakh (i.e. average income of Rs 1 lakh per month other than special rate income such as capital gains) under the new regime.

• This limit will be Rs 12.75 lakh for salaried tax payers, due to standard deduction of Rs 75,000.

• The limit for tax deduction on interest for senior citizens doubled from the present Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh.

• The annual limit of Rs 2.40 lakh for TDS on rent increased to Rs 6 lakh.

Choose the erroneous part of the given sentence.

Despite of continuing pain (1)/ she worked at her (2)/ temporary summer job (3)/ most of the week (4).

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D

The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.

If he wants / farther information, / send him / to me.

(A) farther information

(B) If he wants

(C) send him

(D) to me

Select the appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

Back up

(A) Withdraw

(B) Defend or support

(C) Think about the past

(D) Stand up to fight

Choose the correct meaning of the highlighted idiom from the given options.

He is now a (gentleman at large) living as best as he can.

(A) Dominating

(B) At liberty

(C) A person without any serious occupation

(D) Ordinary and undistinguished

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.

That which is without opposition

(A) Ubiquitous

(B) Anonymity

(C) Unanimous

(D) Unison

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given one word.

An emolument over and above fixed income or salary

(A) honorarium
(B) sinecure
(C) perquistive
(D) prerogative

Given below are six sentences
A-F, of which A and F are static and B-E have been jumbled. Pick the option that gives the correct order of the jumbled sentences.

(A) Dr. Sadao Hoki's house was built on a spot on the Japanese coast where he had played as a little boy.

(B) His father had said, "Those islands are the stepping stones to the future for Japan.

(C) His father had taken him to the islands of those seas and taught him things he had not forgotten.

(D) As a boy, Sadao had climbed the pines, supporting himself on his bare feet as the men did in the South Seas.

(E) The square stone house was set upon rocks above a beach outlined with bent pines.

(F) "Where shall we step from them?" Sadao had asked seriously.

🔍Crude (adj)

📌Meaning: simply made; not showing much attention to details

📌Example: Crudities (noun form) in their work may cost them much later.