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GenesisOver the last two decades, a number of civil society organisations (CSOs) in India have started engaging substantively with budget analysis and advocacy efforts for improving transparency, participation and accountability in governance. While some of these CSOs have adopted the lens of specific disadvantaged sections of population (like, children, dalits or adivasis), some organisations have focused primarily on specific sectors (like, health, education or decentralization). Some of these CSOs have also adopted budget analysis and advocacy as a tool for strengthening their existing interventions for improvements in public policies and processes in a number of sectors. Civil society budget work in India was initiated by Developing Initiatives for Social and Human Action (DISHA), a people-centred organisation based in Gujarat, which used budget analysis and advocacy as a tool to assess the priority accorded to the tribal and indigenous population in the State Budgets of Gujarat. In the 1990s, a few other CSOs across different parts of the country started incorporating budget analysis and advocacy as a tool for strengthening their existing interventions, viz. Centre for Budget and Policy Studies (in Karnataka), Vidhayak Sansad (in Maharashtra) and Social Watch - Tamil Nadu (in Tamil Nadu). In the subsequent decade, a sizable number of CSOs have incorporated budget analysis and advocacy efforts as one of their priority areas of work, while a few new CSOs have been established primarily to focus on government budgets from the perspective of poor and disadvantaged sections of population. |
Budget Track
This special issue of Budget Track focusses on the key concerns relating to Taxation in India. In keeping with this, we have an interesting mix of contributions that look at some critical aspects such as expanding the fiscal space through taxation, tax havens, tax exemptions in India and more People's Budget Initiative
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A civil society coalition, which campaigns for the inclusion
of people's movements, grassroots organisations and national
and international NGOs in the policy processes that determine
the priorities underlying government budgets in India.