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Social sector asks Jaitley to review subsidy alternatives
The Hindu
12 January 2016
Social sector groups want Finance Minister to review the implementation of alternative subsidy systems before going ahead with Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT). “There have been several instances of in-kind transfers being successfully implemented...
India’s Budget Transparency Score Worse than Bangladesh’s
After Launch of OBS 2015- In The Times of India
- 10 September 2015
AN international report on budget transparency places India at a middling level globally and next only to Bangladesh in South Asia. The report, which looks at 2013-14, the last year of the UPA, gave India a score of 46 on 100, just slightly better...
Selfie with daughters versus Budget Cuts
The Times Of India
- 13 July 2015
MUMBAI: While Prime Minister Narendra Modi's #SelfieWithDaughter grabbed headlines across the globe, many in India point to the irony of a campaign for the girl child in the wake of drastic budget cuts for the Ministry of Woman and Child...
400 million people are headed to India's cash-strapped cities
Scroll.in
- 22 June 2015
While local governments in China get 25% of total public revenue, it is only 3% in India, indicating the parlous state of finances in India’s burgeoning towns and cities. The annual growth in the urban population of India between 2010 and 2015...
Myriad laws govern non-profit organizations’ funding
LiveMint
- 15 June 2015
The Greenpeace India case of June 2014 put the issue of foreign funding to Indian not-for-profit associations (NPAs) centre stage. The organization had its bank accounts frozen and international funding blocked, following a ministry of home affairs...
Modi government cuts social sector allocations to states by half to promote cooperative federalism
The Economic Times
- 1 June 2015
BENGALURU: As the central government devolves more fiscal freedom to the states, they seem to be cutting allocations to social sectors, especially agriculture and allied areas in response, according to the initial findings of a study. The Narendra...
Nobody's Child: The Plight Of Street Children In India
The Huffington Post
- 27 May 2015
'Street child,' used by the Commission on Human Rights in 1994, describes "any girl or boy for whom the street has become his or her habitual abode and/or source of livelihood, and who is inadequately protected, supervised or directed by responsible...
Financial devolution
Down to Earth
- 25 May 2015
Is it too abrupt, and too less for states? For long, states have been demanding more funds from the Central tax pool. In addition, there have been demands for devolving most of the Centrally Sponsored Schemes to the states. Just a few days before...
States unlikely to bridge gap in funding
The Hindu
- 21 May 2015
As the National Democratic Alliance government completes a year in office, an emerging area of concern has been the fallout of cuts for centrally sponsored social welfare schemes in Budget 2015-16. The Centre, which accepted the recommendations...
Roads before welfare: Modi faces dissent over spending shakeup | Reuters
Firstpost
- 19 May 2015
NEW DELHI As Prime Minister Narendra Modi completes one year in office, his cuts in federal welfare spending on the poorest of India's 1.25 billion people are coming in for sharp criticism, including from within his cabinet. In a break with...