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Arun Kumar Das
COVID-19: New Rail Projects Barring Safety Work to Be Held in Abeyance
10 Aug 2020
Though Railways has clarified that the order will not affect any ongoing vital infrastructure projects, the financial health of the state-run transporter seems to be grim.
Newsclick Report
Package ‘Inadequate’, Provide Ration Kits to All Poor to Fight COVID-19, Says Yechury
26 Mar 2020
In the face of large-scale layoffs and retrenchment, the government must guarantee payment of wages for minimum three months. Farmers must get a one-time waiver on their loans, said CPI(M).
Newsclick Team
Relief Package, COVID-19 Update and more
26 Mar 2020
In NewsClick's daily round-up for today, we speak about the economic relief package and the increasing influence of the Coronavirus.
Subodh Varma
COVID-19 Lockdown: Unbearable Half Measures of Modi Government
26 Mar 2020
An insufficient economic package for welfare of the poor has been announced almost two months after WHO declared it a public emergency.
Abir Dasgupta, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Adani Letters Rogatory Judgment: Why Finance Ministry Must Appeal
31 Oct 2019
A Bombay High Court order in a case relating to alleged over-invoicing of coal imported from Indonesia by a company in the Adani group threatens to undermine the capabilities of India’s investigative…
Subodh Varma
Dumb and Dumber: Facing Slowdown, Govt Squeezes Expenditure
12 Sep 2019
Rather than spending more, government expenditure by July 2019 is less than what it was last year as share of annual budget, with key public welfare related ministries cutting most.
Subodh Varma
What the Slowdown Means for Working People
18 Aug 2019
Amidst stagnating wages and raging joblessness, a clueless govt. is knocking at the wrong doors.
Newsclick Report
Centre Officially Lines Up 23 CPSEs for Disinvestment
24 Jul 2019
The finance ministry informed Parliament that the government has given ‘in-principle’ approval for strategic disinvestment of these central public sector enterprises including subsidiaries, units and…
Peeyush Sharma
Funds for SC/ST Schemes: Deficient Allocation, Inadequate Spending
19 Jul 2019
Taking the allocations and actual expenditure of the government against the guidelines of the Ministry of Finance, it is clear that these expenditures will not go far in addressing the issues of the…
Gautam Navlakha
Military Budget: Ambition Amidst Resource Crunch
10 Jul 2019
If the government is determined to pursue the path of foreign OEM-led expansion of manufacturing of military wherewithal, then the best it can do is to hedge the bets.