Ninad Karpe, CEO & MD, Aptech Limited

The FM has sought to give a stimulus to the sector by introducing monetary support for education in the form of bank loans at easy terms. The interest subsidy f...

Vidur Bharadwaj, Director, 3C Company

Home loans and interest rates have not been touched at all....

Sanjay Sinha, CEO, DBS Cholamandalam Asset Management

The budget has disappointed on major policy announcements that are any way a cornerstone of its long term economic policy such as a more ambitious disinvestment...

Sanjay Sakhuja, CEO, Ambit Corporate Finance

I would have loved the budget to be accompanied by large scale reforms. I was quite looking forward to an announcement of greater FDI in insurance and maybe eve...

DD Rathi, Director, Grasim

I have always held the view that interest rates at the moment are not stated downward. The fluctuations if any on either side would be very nominal. I think tha...

Rajesh Relan, Managing Director, MetLife India Insurance Company Limited

From the Life Insurance Industry perspective, we were expecting the FM to give a road map for the insurance Bill. In that regard the budget was a disappointment...

Vallabh Bhanshali, Chairman, Enam Securities

The market was very unhappy with the debt waiver and National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) last year and then the world melted and all these turned...

Samir Arora, Fund Manager , Helios Capital

For example, what was the harm in saying if it is going to happen a few days or a month that we want in insurance foreign direct investment to come in? We must ...

Uday Kotak, Executive Vice Chairman & MD, Kotak Mahindra Bank

With a lot of liquidity in the system, the additional borrowing that the government needs to do for the 6.8% will be absorbed by bond markets. What it will do i...

R Seshasayee, Managing Director, Ashok Leyland

I think the market has to be convinced that the borrowing programme that the government can indeed be absorbed without the flare up of the interest rate. I do n...

Deepak Parekh , Chairman, HDFC

I don't think the budget is an area where insurance liberalisation is going to be discussed. Importance of foreign capital was mentioned and in their normal cou...

KV Kamath, MD & CEO, ICICI Bank

Fiscal deficit number at 6.8% does not unnerve me. Certainly, we could have expected that it would be the number. Some statement as to what would be the next st...

 To Allocate Rs 2000 cr for Rural Housing Funds in National Housing Banks

SBI    2011.90    -33.80

PNB    692.10    -33.95

Bank of Baroda    579.25    -35.70

Canara Bank    362.00    -18.55

Bank of India    260.95    -19.30

Union Bank    202.85    -14.45

IDBI Bank    74.70    -2.10

Syndicate Bank    116.45    -4.80

Central Bank    63.80    -2.85

Oriental Bank    220.75    -14.00

Indian Bank    130.95    1.60

Corporation Ban    366.00    -11.15

UCO Bank    73.40    -3.60

Allahabad Bank    105.65    -4.20

IOB    55.35    -3.45

Andhra Bank    84.20    -1.50

SBIBIVR    10390.22    61.30

Bank of Mah    51.70    -2.05

State B Bikaner    416.00    -3.65

Dena Bank    79.55    -6.85