Tax subvention to improve housing shortage: Manoj John, VP, RNA Corp.
The favourable budget outcomes are enhancement of priority home loan limit to Rs. 25 lakhs from Rs. 20 lakhs and extension of interest subvention of 1% up to Rs 15 lakhs.
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Commendable job by focus on infra dev: RICS
Backed by strong economic growth and impressive fiscal consolidation, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) believes that the finance minister has done a commendable job by continuing the focus on infrastructure development, which has been a key contributor to the inclusive growth in the country.
Budget has been neutral and industry friendly: Irfan Razack, CMD, Prestige Group
The budget speech indicated further progress on the Direct Tax Code (DTC) as well as the GST – both critical measures, which is a welcome move. Though, I feel that it would have been better for the industry if GST was also rolled out along with the DTC.
Budget relying on inclusive growth for the ‘aam aadmi’ : Pranab Datta, VC & MD, Knight Frank India
The Budget is relying heavily on maintaining the trajectory of growth in the economy to provide solutions for inclusive growth that touch the ‘Aam Aadmi’ and parallelly stressing on governance aspects, which hopefully will be covered separately through concrete action plans to deal with the menace of unaccounted wealth. The trend for consolidation is expected to continue.
Due importance to affordable housing in Budget 2011: Ramesh Sanghvi, Director, Sanghvi Group
The budget of 2011-12 has certainly given due importance to the affordable sector. The current scheme of interest subvention on 1 percent on housing loans is now extended to Rs 15 lakhs where the cost should not exceed 25 lakh.
Deduction in affordable housing welcome: Lalit Kumar Jain, CMD, Kumar Urban Development Ltd and Vice president CREDAI
The unfulfilled demand of more than 24 million houses in the country needs large scale impetus to achieve desired results. Allowing deduction for investment into affordable housing is a welcome step and will surely boost morale of housing industry and will accelerate investments in affordable housing.
Low Income and Middle Income Housing thrust is reflected in the Budget: Rohtas Goel, MD, Omaxe
Affordable Housing development is expected to be encouraged with the announcement of a new Housing Mortgage Guarantee Fund which will cover the risk of Housing Finance Companies for lending to less advantaged sections of society.
Increase in priority housing loan limit a positive step: Jitendra Jain, MD & CEO, Neev Group Of Companies
The move to increase the priority housing loan limit to Rs 25 lakh was a positive one that will lead to increasing the base of home loan takers and thereby a boost for affordable housing.
Union Budget 2011 offers 1 per cent interest sop to low-cost housing loans Rs 15 lakh
The government on Monday said low-cost housing loans of Rs 15 lakh will be eligible for one per cent interest subsidy, which will help in increasing the demand for such housing.
Union Budget 2011 raised FII investment cap in infrastructure
The limit of funds to be invested by foreign investors in the Indian infrastructure sector has been raised with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee also allowing mutual funds to accept foreign funds in the national budget presented on Monday.