<span style="color: #222222;">Maharashtra is also looking forward to the Union budget with many expectations.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Along with the entire country, Maharashtra is also looking forward to the Union budget with many expectations. Talking to AIR News, people from various sectors in the state shared their expectations from the budget.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Agriculture marketing and commodity market expert Shrikant Kuwalekar stressed on three major needs for boosting the agriculture sector. These include crop diversification, bridging the gap between the farmers and the modern market and providing allocations and sops to the Farmers Producers Association.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> <b> </b></span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Pandurang Tathole from the real estate industry in Mumbai shared the sector's concern. </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> <b> </b></span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Entertainment Industry, which has been badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, is also expecting a host of relaxations from the government including waving off GST for theatrical screenings. Nitin Vaidya, a prominent Marathi TV and Film Producer and Director of Indian Film and TV Producer's Guild shared his views on this </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">  </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Pharma companies, which play a major role in the state's economy, feel that R&D benefit which has been waived off from last year, should be reinstated. Bhalchandra Barve who is Joint MD of Blue Cross Laboratories and Chairman of Direct and Indirect Taxation of Indian Drug Manufacturers Association echoed his views.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> <br />''Mumbai based Chartered Accountant Sushrut Chitale feels the focus on this year's budget should be on promoting ease of doing business with lesser compliances for ordinary tax payers and more focus on tax collections.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Pankaj Sharma, a Human Resource professional, feels that there should be relaxation in the overall taxation.</span><br />'' <b><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></b><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In the education sector, professionals feel that there should be more spending on vocational education. Santakumar Bhide who is an academician and runs a coaching class shared views on this.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">IT Professional Sunil Gajakosh feels the government should take steps to create more jobs in the IT sector as the industry has been severely affected by the pandemic.</span>