Presenting Budget 2015 in 10 Tweets

Finance Minsiter Arun Jaitley presented the Narendra Modi government's first full budget today. The speech was 1 hour and 36 minute long.

But, in the age of 140 characters, here's how Twitter dissected the budget.

10 tweets on Budget 2015:

#UnionBudget2015 FM earmarks Rs 1000 Crores for technology startup sector.

- Kiran Mazumdar Shaw (@kiranshaw) February 28, 2015

Jaitley: Rs 3500 crore to support micro irrigation programmes #Agriculture #Budget2015

- Tusha Mittal (@tushamittal) February 28, 2015

To create senior citizens' welfare fund; Insurance scheme for poor at Rs.12 per annum : Budget 2015 @arunjaitley

- sukanya kumar (@sukanya_kumar) February 28, 2015

@arunjaitley trolls the opposition, raises MGNREGA allocations by Rs 5000 crores.

- Nistula Hebbar (@nistula) February 28, 2015

1) Golden Monetizing Scheme to earn Interest 2) Soverign Gold Bond redeemable in face value of Gold 3) Indian Gold Coin with Ashoka Chakra.

- Navroop Singh (@s_navroop) February 28, 2015

Mr.Arun Jaitley, Finance Minister in view of enhancing Indian tourism proposes to boost visa on arrival to 150 Nations from 43. #SuperBudget

- Sky Banji (@skybanji) February 28, 2015

AIIMS in J&K and North East along with another IIT in Karnataka is a great boost to education in these states #Budget2015

- Bertrand Dsouza (@bertrandOD) February 28, 2015

BUDGET 2015: special mention of Parsi community; special allocation for sites like hampi, elephanta caves, qutab shahi tombs etc

- Abha Bakaya (@AbhaBakaya) February 28, 2015

So wealth tax is gone and replaced with a 2 % surcharge of income above 1 crore. @arunjaitley budget deftly straddling left and right

- barkha dutt (@BDUTT) February 28, 2015

The inclusion of yoga under charitable purpose in this year's union budget, makes both the CA and yogi in me very happy :)

- Shagun Chopra (@Shagun_11) February 28, 2015