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CBGA is associated with:
  • Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development
  • Global Movement for Budget Transparency, Accountability and Participation
  • Pension Parishad

Welcome to CBGA

Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA) is a policy research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi. Started in 2002 as a programme of National Centre for Advocacy Studies (NCAS), CBGA was registered as an independent non-profit organisation in 2005.

With the aim of facilitating progressive changes in policies, budgets and governance processes, CBGA focuses on:

  • Research on public policy and budgets from the perspective of poor and disadvantaged sections of population;
  • Dissemination of the research findings through its website, publications, consultations and workshops;
  • Training and capacity building of civil society actors on budgets; and
  • Policy advocacy with the executive and other important stakeholders.

CBGA is seeking to achieve a number of progressive changes in policies, budgets and governance processes in the country, which include the following:

  1. Improvement in the capacity of relevant stakeholders to engage with budgets;
  2. Improvement in transparency and scope for participation in budget processes;
  3. Increase in budgetary resources for development sectors and policy measures for better utilisation of allocations in these sectors;
  4. Deepening of planning and budgetary strategies for disadvantaged sections of population; and
  5. Enhancing public understanding of tax issues and the engagement of key stakeholders with the discourse on taxation.

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Budget Track

Budget Track Volume 8 Track-3

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

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People's Budget Initiative

People's Budget InitiativeA 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.

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