Month: February 2020

How Reliable are The Tax Revenue Projections in Union Budget 2020-21?

Suraj Jaiswal

• 19 February 2020
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Taxes are the biggest source of revenue for the Indian government. In 2017-18, the latest year for which the centre and states combined data is available, out of the combined centre-state estimated...

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While Malnutrition Rages, Nutrition-Related Schemes Get 19% Less Funding

Happy Pant

• 13 February 2020
• IndiaSpend
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Budget 2020 does not address the financial and resource shortages affecting nutrition interventions in India, an analysis of budget data shows. Public provisioning for nutrition is important given...

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Improving Road Safety in India - The Need of the Hour

Vijayta Mahendru

• 11 February 2020
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Few years ago, a friend of mine, Brazilian, remarked - "Indian roads are the closest to anarchy that I have ever felt". Incidentally, last month, the famous comic from US, Gabriel Iglesias aka Fluffy...

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Can India meet its new ambitions for sanitation and water?

Trisha Agarwala

• 11 February 2020
• IRC Wash
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India, once "vilified as the nation with the biggest population of open defecators in the world" declared it became open defecation free (ODF) in October 2019. This was the result of the Swachh...

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