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Social Exclusion in the Context of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
Kanika Kaul
Access to water and sanitation are strongly influenced by identities of caste, class and gender. The launch of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan presents an opportunity to address some concerns pertaining to...
Reporting in Public Interest: Value and Impact of CAG’s Audits
Nilachala Acharya, Subrat Das, Trisha Agarwala and Priyanka Samy
The paper puts together a brief overview of some of the key concerns and possibilities with regard to the process of reporting by CAG. It reproduces some of the well-documented information about the...
Budget Transparency and Participation - Recommendations to the Fourteenth Finance Commission
Ravi Duggal, Nilachala Acharya and Anjali Garg
This paper explores the need for a Pre-Budget Statement, sub-national transparency and civil society participation to make the budgetary process in India more transparent, accountable and...
Union Budget: Contours & Dimensions
Sona Mitra
This article notes that it would be good for the government not to pay much attention to the misconceived theories that public provisioning for the poor is equivalent to populism and would lead to...
Cracks in Budgetary Policies Towards the Social Sectors
Subrat Das
This Article discusses the union budget for 2014-15, which offers few changes in terms of policy priorities from the United Progressive Alliance government’s interim budget for 2014-15, and fails...
Resource Mobilisation: Did Union Budget Get it Right?
Rohith Jyothish and Pooja Rangaprasad
The tax proposals in the Union Budget 2014-15 have been seen as investor friendly with a focus on addressing the increasing tax disputes towards intent to provide a stable tax regime. The retention...
Scheduled Caste Sub-Plan and Tribal Sub-Plan
Saumya Shrivastava
The article traces the trajectory followed by the Scheduled Caste Sub Plan (SCSP) and Tribal Sub Plan (TSP) over the last few years, looking at the allocations under these as well as their...
Interim Budget 2014: What it reveals
Sona Mitra
As the nation gears up for the general elections, 2014, the final budget of the outgoing government was presented last month to the 15th Lok Sabha. With the reduction of the Fiscal Deficit in 2013-14...
National Policy for Children, 2013: High on Promises low on Budget
Manzoor Ali
India is home to the largest number of children, 43 crore, in the world. Their care situation is in a shambles. Although, the new National Policy for Children reaffirms that they are “national...
NFSA - Budgetary Implications for Adequate Provisioning of 'Storage Capacity'
Nilachala Acharya
The National Food Security Act has clearly mentioned that additional costs have to be borne by the State governments to create additional storage capacities. However, given the financial constraints...
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