-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Modi government said on Tuesday that it has accepted the recommendation of Finance Commission to raise the share of States in central taxes to 42 per cent from current 32 per cent. As per the increased devolution suggested in the report of the 14th Finance Commission, the States will get Rs 3.48 lakh crore in 2014-15 and Rs 5.26 lakh crore in 2015-16. "The higher tax...
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Social schemes to get fiscal eye
-Business Standard Financial position, spending capacity to play a big role, say sources The government might take a hard view on several social sector schemes, including the Prime Minister's pet projects of Digital India and Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchaee Yojana in the coming Budget for 2015-16. These might get a renewed thrust but perhaps not in the form of a significant increase in Plan allocation. New ways in which funds will be raised...
More »Prof. Jean Dreze, noted economist and former member of the National Advisory Council, interviewed by Mayank Mishra
-Business Standard Reduction in leakages in the Public Distribution System (PDS) is driven by marked improvement in States such as Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Bihar, noted economist and former member of the National Advisory Council Jean Dreze has said in a recent report. In an email interview to Mayank Mishra, he said the National Food Security Act should bring the bulk of the population under a single category with clear entitlements. Edited...
More »The cost of negligence
-The Hindu The failure of successive governments in India, especially those in States that have the highest mortality rates among children younger than five years, to address the critical issue of training health-care providers in rural areas to correctly diagnose and treat children suffering from diarrhoea and pneumonia, has had tragic consequences. These ailments account for the maximum number of under-5 mortality incidence in the country. That the poor management...
More »Enhancing PESA: The Unfinished Agenda -Kamal Nayan Choubey
-Economic and Political Weekly Amendments proposed by the previous Congress-led union government to the Panchayat (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act 1996 had the potential of improving upon this progressive legislation. Unfortunately, with its successor pursuing different priorities, the possibility of the amendments being passed remains rather low. Kamal Nayan Choubey (kamalnayanchoubey@gmail.com) is with the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. A bill for an amendment to the Panchayat (Extension to Scheduled Areas)...
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