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Coverage of the release of Working Papers on "Public Financing for Nutrition in Bihar"
5 April 2018
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Budget fails to live up to rhetoric on women empowerment
- 26 February 2018
The inclusion of rural housing scheme has inflated the gender budget even as actual houses built for women have fallen Budget 2018-19 failed to match the accompanying rhetoric on women empowerment, despite a pink-colour themed Economic Survey...
#Budget2018: Does Dalit-Adivasi allocation add up to Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas?
Newslaundry
- 17 February 2018
The slogan Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas didn’t just win the current government the 2014 elections, it also inspired many Budget trackers to look closely at the allocations for the most marginalised identity groups, i.e. the Scheduled Caste and...
People's participation in formulating India's annual budget is negligible
Down To Earth
- 16 February 2018
A pre-budget meeting between civil society and the Union Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley, held at the Finance Ministry on December 6, 2017, lasted about one-and-a-half hours. The 20-odd civil society members were given about three minutes each to put...
Why Poor Funding of Swachh Bharat Mission Since 2014 Has Put its Goals at Risk
The Wire
- 6 February 2018
The Swachh Bharat Mission is one of the Indian government’s most well-known programmes. Announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his first independence day speech in August 2014, and launched on Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary on October...
What budget has for farm and rural sectors
India water portal
- 6 February 2018
This year’s budget was expected to be extensively farmer- and rural-sector oriented. And that is exactly what it turned out to be. The distress in the agrarian sector has intensified and its political implications were rife this year considering...
Increase in Education Cess Shifts Responsibility on Tax Payer: Experts
News18.com
- 1 February 2018
The central government increased ‘health and education cess’ by one percent to fund health and education sector schemes in the Union Budget 2018-19. This increase will enable the government to collect an estimated additional amount of Rs...
National Health Protection Scheme: Is 'Modicare' an Old Wine in a New Bottle?
News18.com
- 1 February 2018
Already dubbed as Modicare, the National Health Protection Scheme announced by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley during his Union Budget 2018 speech has only one new factor – monetary increase from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 5 lakh per family. Jaitley had first...
Open Budget Survey: Global Budget transparency stalls, India shows moderate growth
Delhi Post
- 1 February 2018
Since the time it gained power in 2014, the BJP has always wooed for a transparent government system for its citizens to trust and actively engage in public discourse. Prime Minister Modi himself has been highlighting the need for more transparency...
India scores better than global average on budget transparency
The Times of India
- 1 February 2018
India scored slightly better than the global average when it comes to budget transparency, according to results of the Open Budget Survey (2017) released on January 30. With a rank of 53 among 115 countries covered by the survey, India's score...