<h1>Subsidy rationalization keeps consumer support while restructuring fuel excise to fund infrastructure and boost energy investment.</h1> The Budget maintains subsidised LPG and kerosene while advancing Subsidy Rationalization via targeted transfers and voluntary surrender; it preserves total excise incidence on petrol and diesel but restructures levies to increase the additional excise component to fund infrastructure. Strategic underground crude storage caverns will be established and funded; central public sector oil and gas companies receive plan capital expenditure from internal and extra budgetary resources for sector projects. A phased corporate tax reduction and a National Investment and Infrastructure Fund with revitalised PPPs are promoted to attract investment.