Pandemic-hit family looks to Budget 2021 for revival

Suggests to focus on job creation in private, public sectors

The most important thing for a middle class family in the Union Budget is the changes in Income Tax slabs and rates apart from other fiscal benefits in healthcare and employment. With coronavirus pandemic severely impacting lives across the world unprecedented ways, the middle class and upper middle class are looking up to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to announce measures to help increase savings.

A Mumbai-based pandemic-hit family coping up with a job loss, loss in business and dealing with the online academic sessions of their kids share their expectations from the Union Budget 2021.

To boost the pandemic-battered economy, the Budget 2021 must focus on more job creation voices 42-year-old Vinita Bhatia. "I worked for a media conglomerate, which used COVID-19 as a convenient excuse for retrenching, and there I lost my job. This is despite PM Narendra Modi urging big corporates to avoid firing people. This put a lot of mental and financial strain on my family and me. Paying an ongoing house loan added to this challenge," said Vinita, a resident of Malad.