Sunil Kharbanda Co founder and COO at Trezix
Budget 2026–27 marks the defining inflection point in India’s rise as a global economic and trade powerhouse and its journey towards Viksit Bharat. Guided by the three Kartavya, accelerating resilient growth, empowering citizens as partners in prosperity, and ensuring truly inclusive development, this Budget represents a strategic leap, not incremental reform. With India sustaining ~7% growth momentum, it delivers a bold push to scale manufacturing across seven frontier sectors, strengthen champion MSMEs through a ₹10,000 crore growth fund, and drive record public investment with ₹12.2 lakh crore in capital expenditure. Transformative infrastructure expansion, including new dedicated freight corridors, alongside sweeping customs and tariff simplification, is laying the foundation for faster, greener, and more competitive trade. Most transformative is India’s large-scale embrace of AI, automation, and digital trade systems enabling seamless single-window clearances, real-time approvals, minimal manual intervention at borders, and sharply lower compliance and transaction costs. Backed by export competitiveness measures and long-term support for critical minerals and clean energy through duty exemptions till 2035, India is no longer just integrating into global markets it is positioning itself as an architect of an AI-enabled, frictionless, future-ready global trade order.
