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  The Joy of Safe ePayments — Reading India’s Budget 2026 Beyond the Numbers A citizen’s reading of India’s Union Budget 2026 through the lens of trust, safety, and digital payments — exploring 7 quiet policy signals that strengthen the Joy of Safe ePayments across the country. Budget speeches are usually decoded in numbers. Tax rates. Deficits. Allocations. Outlays. But this year, while listening to Nirmala Sitharaman present the Union Budget , I found myself paying attention to something else entirely. Not just where money goes . But where trust grows . Because every day, millions of us do something extraordinary without even thinking: We scan a QR code . We send money instantly. We pay without touching cash. And we simply… trust it. That quiet confidence — that a digital payment will go through safely — is not created by apps alone. It’s built by policy. By institutions. By the invisible rails strengthened in documents like the Union Budget . So instead of asking,...