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India Promoting Transparency in Budgeting: Global Report
The India Saga
31 January 2018
With the stage set for the annual Budget on Thursday, India a scored 48—slightly higher than the global average-- on a global survey on budget transparency. The global average score for budget transparency is 43 on a scale of 0-100. The Open...
Press Release: India half-way through in promoting budget transparency - reports a Global Survey
- 30 January 2018
Press Release India half-way through in promoting budget transparency - reports a Global Survey New Delhi, 30 January 2018: The idea of ‘good governance’ has gained a lot of momentum in the recent years and ‘Budget Transparency’ has...
No Funds, No Policy, Few Teachers: Former NCERT Director Says Budget Should Increase for Education
News18.com
- 30 January 2018
Higher Education Kumar is of the opinion that this year’s Budget should be focused on institutional recovery. He hopes that the Budget will reverse the trend - which has been building up over the last few years - of reduction in public spending...
Budget 2018: Balanced focus on rural, urban health needs will be crucial
Down To Earth
- 25 January 2018
The Budget 2017-18 had increased outlay for health sector, but also given push for privatisation of health services. The first development brought little relief for those who want robust public health system but the second trend is worrying. In...
Union Budget 2018: climate action funds lying unused is a concern
Down to Earth
- 17 January 2018
On February 1, 2018 Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will walk out for the fourth time with the union budget since the BJP-led NDA government was voted to power at the Centre. This is practically the government’s last opportunity to highlight its...
Press Release: CBGA’s call to end financial secrecy in response to ‘Paradise Papers’
- 6 November 2017
PRESS RELEASE Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability calls on governments across the world to commit to ending financial secrecy which is systemic in the international tax system, to ensure developing countries have sustainable revenue...
Live streaming of the Constitution - Budget Homework review on facebook
Newslaundry
- 3 October 2017
CBGA participated in the Constitution - Budget Homework review by Newslaundry and discusses how taxpayers' money is spent by the government. Please click...
Despite the Hype, States Don’t Have Enough to Spend on Welfare Schemes
The Wire
- 25 September 2017
Several reports on the shocking lack of essential supplies in hospitals, poor infrastructure in nutrition and healthcare centres, and delays in due payments to employees and workers in various welfare schemes have raised the question whether state...
In Uttar Pradesh’s botched effort at regularising contract teachers, a lesson for other states
Scroll.in
- 11 August 2017
The home Manju Dwivedi started building in Gorakhpur last year is yet to get a lintel over its windows. Till the Uttar Pradesh teacher figures out how to repay her Rs 20 lakh home loan, it will remain incomplete. On July 27, Dwivedi’s fortunes...
States are failing to spend their education budgets – because the budgets are too low
Scroll.in
- 1 August 2017
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has found that states failed to spend over Rs 10,000 crores made available to them for elementary education every year between 2010-’11 and 2015-’16. The auditor’s report, which was tabled in the...