Catch the Budget Action Unfolding Live on NDTV.com
Streaming Live the Complete Budget Speech; Chat Live all day with NDTV Anchors & Experts; Vote on the Budget-O-Meter and Give your Opinion
Tweet-- NDTV.com gives Budget Live a whole new meaning on Monday, July 6, bringing a single window experience that combines its core strength of streaming live the complete Budget speech and post-Budget reactions and analysis from the three NDTV channels, NDTV 24x7, NDTV Profit and NDTV India, with the largest collection ever of real-time Budget videos on demand, real-time highlights, statistics and quick pointers to the good, bad and ugly of Pranab Mukherjee’s Budget. All in ONE place!
The country’s largest Budget-related content rides on the twin pillars of community and technology, as the users of NDTV.com, rate each budget highlight, providing an instant insight into people’s reactions on the UPA’s budget, and indicating which are the more popular proposals likely to win the government brownie points and which ones have India frowning.
Users can also share each budget highlight with friends through Facebook and Twitter without navigating away from NDTV Budget Live. In effect, they can create their own Live Budget coverage on their Twitter profiles without a click away from NDTV Budget Live.
As they watch Live TV online, users can ask questions and share their views on the NDTV Live Chat with anchors and experts. Immediately after the Budget, even as Dr. Prannoy Roy and Vikram Chandra along with Industry Experts TN Ninan and Tarun Das put Budget 2009 in perspective, they shall be answering individual user questions on live chat. In fact, through the day, every time anchors and experts take a break on screen, they shall catch up on chat and provide users with answers right there on NDTV Budget Live.
With every proposal that the Finance Minister rolls out, users can track how the markets are reacting with real-time stock updates and calculate their own changing fortunes on the income tax calculator if the FM announces changes in income tax.
Not just taxes. NDTV Budget Live shall also give users a detailed ready-reckoner on the impact on their pocket as each budget proposal is made. It shall cut through the jargon to bring a simplified Budget at a glance for the users.
Past data and statistics will be used to provide users easy-to-use graphical representation of vital economic factors like GDP, revenue deficit, plan and non-plan expenditure, taxes and moreand how these have compared through the years.
Top Budget stories as India Inc, political parties and the aam aadmi react, complete with text, photos and embedded poll andvideo context shall round off the coverage.
Having watched, read, rated, shared, understood, discussed and debated the FM’s proposals, each user can then vote on the Budget-O-Meter to give his thumbs up or express his disappointment or indifference to Budget 2009@ NDTV Budget Live.