Union Budget : All

Subodh Varma
Economy in Shambles, But PM Asking Culprits for Solution!
12 Jan 2020
In case you have been wondering why Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been so silent of late, not uttering a word about the CAA/NRC (Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens) prot
Newsclick Report
India Slides Down in GDP Rankings in 2018 as 7th Largest Economy: World Bank
02 Aug 2019
The rankings comes days after the Modi government announced that it would make India a $5 trillion economy by 2024.
Vikram Singh
BJP Government’s Efforts to Reduce MGNREGA to Just Another Scheme
01 Aug 2019
The current government’s attitude towards MGNREGA has been iterated time and again by the actions of its ministers.
PTI
Finance Secretary Garg Seeks VRS After Being Shunted Out
25 Jul 2019
Modi 2.0 government’s bureaucratic reshuffle creates ripples after Garg, who was in charge of fiscal policy, RBI-related matters, and was closely involved in the preparation of Union Budget, was…
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…
Tikender Singh Panwar
Budget 2019-20 Belies Hopes of Urban People
21 Jul 2019
According to the budget figures on percentage of expenditure to the GDP, urban development continues to remain static at 0.23%.
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…
Surajit Mazumdar
Decoding Budget Numbers and Words
13 Jul 2019
The budget and all the extra-budgetary talk are together are an indication that the government has read the electoral verdict as a sanction for actively tilting the balance in the economy further…
Prabhat Patnaik
Some Disquieting Trends in the Budget
12 Jul 2019
The abridgement of democracy and of national sovereignty, which neoliberalism entails in general, gets further intensified when the government becomes indebted to foreign creditors.
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.