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A Mixed Bag For Social Sectors
Subrat Das
A push to the rural and digital economy but not much for the rest With the budget for 2017-18, the Union Government has continued adhering to the path of fiscal consolidation, which has resulted...
Union Budget 2017: Swachh Bharat Abhiyan gets good funds but what about water?
Trisha Agarwala
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA), one of the flagship programme’s of the government, has heralded a change in the sphere of sanitation programmes in the country. Though India has made strides in...
राजस्व बढ़ाने के साथ ही संसाधनों के प्रभंधन का प्रयोग
Saumya Shrivastava
राजस्व बढ़ाने के साथ ही संसाधनों के प्रभंधन का...
Budget 2017: Here are a few black money steps Arun Jaitley did not spell out on Wednesday
Neeti Biyani
The Union Budget 2017-18 tabled in Parliament yesterday was one of many firsts. The Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley began his speech on taxation by acknowledging that the country’s tax-GDP ratio, as...
Why Union Budget 2017 proposals fall short of Modi govt’s commitment towards farmers
Nilachala Acharya
Hardly anybody would quibble over the fact that rural India has been severely impacted with the sluggish agricultural activities and other means of livelihood in the post-demonetization phase. Some...
Merging plan and non-plan
Happy Pant
The Plan and Non-Plan expenditure heads created distrotions in developmental funding which seek resolution. With the government moving away from the system of five-year plans from the next...
How can this Budget give a fillip to states' spending on social sectors?
Happy Pant and Amar Chanchal
The Union Budget assumes greater significance this year as it is all set to announce several structural shifts. The new system of budgeting will usher in a slew of changes like moving the...
Advancing the Union Budget will help expedite fund flow from central ministries to states
Nilachala Acharya
This will help expedite fund flow from central ministries to the states and improve fund utilisation. The Constitution of India does not mention any specific date or day for presentation of the...
स्वास्थ्य और असंगठित क्षेत्र बने प्राथमिकता
Sona Mitra
स्वास्थ्य और असंगठित क्षेत्र बने...
Black money hunt: India-Switzerland pact to share details of tax cheats is weak; it's no game-changer
Suraj Jaiswal
On November 22nd 2016, the NDA government signed an agreement with Switzerland for exchange of financial information, which will provide India details of the financial assets held by its citizens in...
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