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Social sector asks Jaitley to review subsidy alternatives
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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...
India’s Budget Transparency Score Worse than Bangladesh’s
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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...
Selfie with daughters versus Budget Cuts
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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...
400 million people are headed to India's cash-strapped cities
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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...
Myriad laws govern non-profit organizations’ funding
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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...
Modi government cuts social sector allocations to states by half to promote cooperative federalism
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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...
Nobody's Child: The Plight Of Street Children In India
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'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...
Financial devolution
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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...
States unlikely to bridge gap in funding
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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...
Roads before welfare: Modi faces dissent over spending shakeup | Reuters
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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...
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