Holiday budgets to create hot jobs

As more Indians travel and the states promote domestic tourism, employment opportunities are expected to boom

- Devina Sengupta

Multiple budget proposals related to tourism, infrastructure, ports, construction and technology are expected to create employment opportunities in these sectors. The budget’s emphasis on upskilling is likely to help people get jobs in the formal sector of the economy.

"States will be encouraged to take up comprehensive development of iconic tourist centres, branding and marketing them at global scale... Tourism, including spiritual tourism, has tremendous opportunities for local entrepreneurship," finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in her interim budget speech. The government also aims to increase diversity in formal and informal sectors.