Vijayakumar said the market will be looking for growth stimulating measures and not market-related taxation reliefs like changes in the capital gains taxation.

The Indian stock market is open today as the BSE, NSE and MCX have announced a special trading session on Budget day.

Benchmark indices closed higher for the fourth consecutive session, with BSE Sensex gaining 740 points and Nifty50 finishing above 23,500. The rise is driven by pre-Budget optimism, projected GDP growth,