THE road map for tackling the challenges thrown by the global economic slowdown and the crisis in the Gulf was laid out by the Pinarayi Vijayan government in Kerala in its first budget. In what is clearly an aspiration-driven budget, finance minister T M Thomas Isaac has sought to give a big push to infrastructure development using extra-budgetary resources, while attempting to raise tax revenue with better tax administration and fresh imposts and provide a healing touch to vulnerable sections. Traditional industries like coir, cashew and handloom also get focus in the budget.