Housing loan interest deduction increase urged to boost affordable housing incentives and access to infrastructure financing.
Proposals seek to raise the allowable deduction for housing loan interest to expand tax incentives and improve fund flow into affordable housing, and to accord infrastructure status to housing to access infrastructure financing. Additional recommendations focus on promoting rental housing, remedying capital gains tax anomalies when reinvesting sale proceeds into multiple residential properties, and securing greater government support for infrastructure companies working offshore.

E-auction consolidation centralises distressed asset listings, streamlining bank recovery efforts and improving investor access to properties.
A centralised e-auction portal consolidates property listings from Public Sector Banks-residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural and movable assets-into a single platform covering pre-auction, auction and post-auction workflows. The portal aims to support the recovery process by enhancing transparency and efficiency through integrated payment and KYC, microservices with open APIs, analytics dashboards, helpdesk support and training for bank and recovery officers; over 122,500 properties have been migrated for auction.

Complaint driven scrutiny of welfare beneficiaries uses inter agency verification to target alleged ineligible recipients and adjust benefits accordingly.
Complaint driven scrutiny will target alleged bogus beneficiaries of a state cash transfer scheme using inter agency data from tax and transport authorities to identify recipients exceeding the income threshold or holding disqualifying vehicles; verification will address Aadhaar mismatches, duplicate applications, false documents and domicile changes after marriage, with administrative adjustments such as offsetting other scheme benefits and allowing voluntary withdrawal after securing government employment.

Beneficiary scrutiny based on complaints: verification sought from tax and transport departments to address ineligible claimants.
Scrutiny of Mukyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana beneficiaries will be complaint-driven, with the state seeking data from the Income Tax and Transport Departments to verify eligibility. Reported issues include Aadhaar mismatches, duplicate applications, domicile changes after marriage, and alleged false documents. The ministry will cross-verify complaints from specified districts and apply gap funding where beneficiaries receive other scheme support, with removals or adjustments contingent on verification results and pending data.

Currency swap arrangement expands INR swap window to strengthen regional liquidity and promote rupee internationalisation.
The Framework on Currency Swap Arrangement for SAARC Countries (2024-27) renews a regional short term FX backstop and introduces a separate INR swap window to promote rupee internationalisation alongside existing USD/Euro facilities. Parallelly, recent Bilateral Investment Treaties with the UAE and Uzbekistan establish investor protections, expropriation safeguards, transparency, national treatment, and arbitration based dispute settlement (with local remedies exhaustion provisions). Domestic measures include the National Infrastructure Readiness Index and regulatory amendments-overseas investment rules, foreign exchange rules enabling cross border share swaps and FDI in white label ATMs, compounding rules, and securities listing reforms-to streamline cross border investment and boost ease of doing business.

Capital restructuring guidelines enhance CPSE flexibility and shareholder value through IPOs, OFS, and calibrated disinvestment.
DIPAM advanced a public asset management strategy prioritising capital restructuring, market-based monetisation via IPOs and OFS (including green shoe and employee participation mechanisms), and a consistent dividend policy balancing shareholder returns and CPSE reinvestment. Revised Capital Restructuring Guidelines supersede prior guidance to improve CPSE value, operational and financial flexibility, and broaden investor participation, while disinvestments and strategic sales follow multi-layered consultative approval and contract-based completion mechanisms.

Delegation of powers expands CPSE autonomy, streamlining JV and subsidiary formation and simplifying categorisation upgradation processes.
DPE strengthened oversight of capital investment across select CPSEs by monitoring CAPEX, reporting a year on year increase and significant mid year attainment of fiscal targets. It conferred Maharatna and multiple Navratna classifications to expand CPSE autonomy, and issued revised guidelines simplifying board level exercise of delegated powers for establishing financial joint ventures and wholly owned subsidiaries and procedures for CPSE categorisation upgradation.