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GM mustard: Need to address economic issues of using the crop
Santosh Verma
Genetically modified (GM) mustard recently received the Centre’s environmental clearance. The approval received severe backlash, with the critics pointing out how little we know about...
Contract farming is yet to make a mark in Punjab; here is why
Nivedita Sharma
A 52-year-old, better-off farmer from Sehjo Majra in Ludhiana district of Punjab has been practising contract farming for more than 20 years. This farmer contracts with four companies — Pepsico Pvt...
Providing an enabling policy atmosphere’
Ingrid Srinath
Many countries across the world provide tax incentives for donations made to civil society organisations (CSOs) as a policy measure to help these organisationsas well as acknowledge the critical...
Mere Fiscal Commitment Isn't Enough to Promote Education of Scheduled Castes
Jawed Alam Khan and Rahat Tasneem
Major challenges plague the Post-Matric Scholarship Scheme for Scheduled Castes (PMS-SC) even after the renewed fiscal commitments and revised guidelines. The most important scheme for aiding...
Union Budget Lacks Focus on Climate Change Adaptation
Jyotsna Goel
The Union Budget 2022-23 underpinned climate action among the four priority areas of the government along with PM Gati Shakti, inclusive development and energy transition. By including clean energy...
Decoding Health Budget 2022-23: The Good and the bad
Simonti Chakraborty
The Union Budget 2022-23 rode on the back of a myriad of expectations for different sectors emerging out of the context of the pandemic. The provisions to be made for the health sector were...
Does the Union Budget 2022-23 Offer Inclusive Recovery for School Education?
Protiva Kundu
School closure in India is going to reach its 82nd week. Due to this extended closure, over 247 million students all over the country had their learning disrupted, increasing the pre-existing...
What Does the Union Budget '23 Mean for Sustainable Agriculture?
Gurpreet Singh
This year marks the completion of the five-year period, by when farmers’ income was supposed to double as per the announcement made in 2016-17. This is also the first budget after the farmer’...
Tax Revenue Performance Perhaps Reflects The Nature Of Recovery
Malini Chakravarty
All available indicators point to the fact that the Centre’s tax collection is set to exceed last year’s Budget Estimates (BE). The gross tax revenue collections in the first eight months of the...
Budget 2022: Rethinking the Way Child Budgeting Is Implemented In India
Simonti Chakraborty
The presentation of the Union Budget 2022-23 is just around the corner and like every year, there are many expectations from it so far as children are concerned. While every year around the time of...
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