New Delhi, July 27 - Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Monday proposed some more concessions in direct and indirect taxes, especially for infrastructure, housing and food processing industries, to push the country's growth.

The proposed measures were announced during Mukherjee's reply to the debate in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament, on the Finance Bill, presented by him July 6 as part of the national budget for the current fiscal.

Some of the new measures announced by him include:

-Inclusion of new services under service tax only from Sep 1

-Maintenance of road, highways exempted from service tax net

-Interest deduction on education loan extended to legal guardians of students

-Tax holiday on industrial parks till March 31, 2011, to push infrastructure

-Tax relief to housing if ongoing projects are completed before 2012

-Tax holiday on natural gas exploration extended to fourth round of auctions

-Enhanced interest subsidy for buying houses of less than Rs.2 million

-Tax holiday scheme extended for meat, poultry, marine, dairy products

-Income tax deduction hiked for people with severe disability

The finance minister said he was aware of the numerous requests made during the debate to extend some more sops to the individual tax-payer and the corporate sector.