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Renewable Energy: Areas of Concern for Union Budget 2013-14
Gyana Ranjan Panda and Saumya Shrivastava
As the country continues to strive to achieve energy security, there is ample evidence of unmet demand for access to electricity and cleaner energy in rural areas. The latest Census (2011) figures,...
Budget 2013-14: Provisioning for Universal Healthcare or Moving away from Agenda?
Sona Mitra
The government of India is yet to recognise and institutionalise the right to health as a universal right of every citizen. India’s public spending on health, at about one per cent of the...
Plan Spending on Social Sectors and a Paradox in Budgetary Policies
Subrat Das
In the context of Union Budget for 2013-14, to be presented on February 28, some of the reports in the print media have indicated that the finance ministry could reduce the budget outlay for some of...
Taxation and Inequality: Expectations from Union Budget 2013-14
Pooja Rangaprasad
“Why should I pay so much tax to the state since most of it goes into private pockets?” becomes a common refrain for the affluent middle class. Tax cuts, therefore, become the order of the day...
Planning and Budgetary Strategies for Disadvantaged Sections
Jawed Alam Khan
The need for focusing on the concerns of the most disadvantaged sections of population has remained at the core of development planning in India since early 1950s. Planning and budgetary strategies...
Taxation - Concepts and Trends
Pooja Rangaprasad
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Union Budget: Understanding the Concepts
Happy Pant
Budget of a government refers to a comprehensive statement of its expenditures and receipts for a particular financial year. It is an expression of the intentions of the government as regards its...
Revitalising Agriculture in Eastern India: Investment and Policy Priorities
Nilachala Acharya and Subrat Das
This article examines the priority accorded to agriculture and allied sectors in India’s public expenditure over the last two decades, with specific attention to budgetary spending by the eastern...
Food Security Still a Distant Dream
Nilachala Acharya
Given the scale of deprivation, hunger and malnutrition at present, it was expected that budget 2012-13 would accord top priority, in terms of allocating adequate resources under food subsidy, to...
On States' Shoulders
Nilachala Acharya, Sakti Golder and Shankhanath Bandopadhyay
On States'...
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