new delhi while the budget might not have been all hunkydory for the auto industry nearly 61 percent of auto industry believes that the finance minister of india arun jaitley has been able to deliver average or better than average budget for fy201617 according to etauto postbudget survey which received participation from nearly 1000 respondents 308 percent of them rate the budget to be good however an equal number of respondents also said that the budget was nothing more than average while 6 percent termed the budget excellent the respondents who called it poor was almost double at 114 percent right from the beginning of the budget arun jaitley maintained a focus towards growth in all the key segment of the economy nearly 42 percent of the respondents said that the budget was growth oriented however it is also to be noted that the second highest number of respondents 22 percent found the budget to be inconclusive the biggest bone of contention for the auto industry is the introduction of infrastructure cess which will be applicable to all cars and suvs with immediate effect the cess has been levied based on the type of four wheeler divided in three categories petrollpgcng driven motor vehicles of length not exceeding 4m and engine capacity not exceeding 1200cc will be taxed at 1 diesel driven motor vehicles of length not exceeding 4m and engine capacity not exceeding 1500cc will have an additional cess of 25 percent and infra cess for other higher engine capacity cars and bigger sedan and suvs have been fixed at 4 percent this will increase the price of the cars which might further squeeze the growth of the industry 45 percent of the respondents said that the increase in taxation on automobile will further impact the growth of automotive industry while 44 percent said the impact will be marginal 11 percent said that there will be no impact the biggest positive that the industry drew out of the budget was the considerable focus on infrastructure and rural development in the country over rs 200000 crore has been allocated for the development of infra in the country nearly rs 97000 crore of this is set aside for roads and highways only jaitley announced in the budget that nearly 10000 km of road will be built during the year in india many argue that the impact of better infra on the automotive might be able to compensate for the impact rise in price might have on the automotive sector nearly 47 percent of the 1000 respondents said that the push in infrastructure sector may help compensate the increase in taxes on cars over 30 percent were certain that it will be able to compensate and over 22 percent said infra push will not compensate for the additional taxes the rural development too saw finance minister loosen his purse strings to a huge extent for rural development as a whole rs 87765 crore in the budget for 201617 was allocated the