NEW DELHI, Feb. 2 -- The Interim Budget 2019- has given major sops in terms of both taxes and non-tax transfers. The two most important announcements are the direct income transfer scheme to farmers with an annual outlay of Rs 75000 crore and an increase in taxable income threshold from Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 5 lakh. This has been done without any increase in the fiscal deficit figure between revised estimates (RE) for 2018-19 and budget estimates (BE) for 2019-20. This merits a careful examination of the arithmetic behind the budget....