Protiva Kundu
There is a notion that populist measures are politically attractive but end up hurting everybody –including the poor. They are often described as “sops” that increase the fiscal burden of the...
Protiva Kundu
The presentation for the Union Budget 2023-24 is right around the corner. The state budgets will be announced soon after. One critical expectation would be a substantial commitment to the early...
Santosh Verma
Genetically modified (GM) mustard recently received the Centre’s environmental clearance. The approval received severe backlash, with the critics pointing out how little we know about...
Nivedita Sharma
A 52-year-old, better-off farmer from Sehjo Majra in Ludhiana district of Punjab has been practising contract farming for more than 20 years. This farmer contracts with four companies — Pepsico Pvt...
Nilachala Acharya
When a country’s budget process is open, public money is better used on public needs, which in turn builds trust among the people in fiscal governance and public sector delivery of services....
Ingrid Srinath
Many countries across the world provide tax incentives for donations made to civil society organisations (CSOs) as a policy measure to help these organisationsas well as acknowledge the critical...
Jawed Alam Khan
Major challenges plague the Post-Matric Scholarship Scheme for Scheduled Castes (PMS-SC) even after the renewed fiscal commitments and revised guidelines. The most important scheme for aiding...
Malini Chakravarty
In early-April 2020, when many of us were still trying to adapt to the precautions needed against COVID-19, figuring out stringency levels of lockdown of different color-coded zones of the country,...
Happy Pant
India presented its latest Union Budget (for FY 2022 -23) in early February amid much hope, as the country is still reeling from the aftermath of Covid-19 pandemic, which has lasted for two...
Jyotsna Goel
The Union Budget 2022-23 underpinned climate action among the four priority areas of the government along with PM Gati Shakti, inclusive development and energy transition. By including clean energy...
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