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Budget bids adieu to welfare state, rue civil rights activists

-The Hindu Business Line

Fails to ease distress caused by demonetisation’

New Delhi:
Terming the Union Budget 2017-18, presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, as detrimental to the realisation of the welfare State, as enshrined in the Constitution, civil rights organisations said it “fails to respond to the present situation of distress and unemployment especially aggravated by demonetisation.”

“The Budget seems to be perpetuating unemployment, hunger and malnutrition,” said a release by the Right to Food Campaign (RFC), an umbrella of over 100 civil rights organisations and individuals, citing the example of the mid-day meal budget, which has been increased from Rs. 9,700 crore to Rs. 10,000 crore, which “is not an increase at all when adjusted for inflation.”

“The budget for Integrated Child Development Scheme is up from Rs. 14,560 revised estimate (RE) to Rs. 15,245 budgetary estimate (BE), which is certainly not an increase in any meaningful sense,” said RFC, adding that budgetary allocation for the National Nutrition Mission (Rs. 1,500 crore) does not indicate what this is for, as earlier years have also seen allocations under this head not being used.

“Last year, the Rs. 400-crore BE for nutrition mission was reduced to Rs. 39 crore in the RE. In any case, before expending the funds of this mission, the details have to be made public to ensure transparency and should be accompanied by public consultations/ deliberations,” said the RFC, which includes National Federation for Indian Women, Human Right Law Network, National Campaign for People's Right to Information, among others.

With regard to the rural job guarantee programme, MGNREGA, the RFC accused the Finance Minister of “misleading” the people.

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