-Livemint.com Pro-poor and yet not populist can be the single defining strand of this year’s Union budget The run-up to this year’s Union budget, especially the past one week, has taken place in the backdrop of an unprecedented, vicious political confrontation between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the opposition. Together with the hit-wicket tendencies of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), it probably exaggerated the magnitude of every challenge...
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Budget 2016: Ahead Of Polls, Government's Big Boost For UPA's Job Scheme MGNREGA
-NDTV Profit New Delhi: The BJP-led government has once again bumped up the allocation for the rural jobs guarantee scheme MGNREGA, once described by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as "living proof of the Congress party's failure." In Budget 2016, the MGNREGA scheme or Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has been allocated Rs. 38, 500 crore ahead of important elections in five states this year. "If this is spent, it will be...
More »On sanitation, India is still in the dumps -Indira Khurana
-The Pioneer The Modi Government’s campaign to end open defecation is welcome but building new toilets alone will not solve the problem Politically, sanitation is a hot topic but the focus has to shift to the villages. Open defecation is still a common practice in many villages. The plan is to achieve the Clean India target by 2019 to coincide with the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Every year, health payments...
More »Budget 2016: FM Arun Jaitley faces tough task; has to please both farmers, investors
-PTI Budget 2016: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley faces a tough task of balancing the needs of farm SECtor as well as the industry when he presents his third and challenging Budget tomorrow as he seeks to garner resources to boost public spending for higher growth amid global headwinds. On the income tax front, the Budget may continue with the status quo on the tax slabs while it may tinker with the exemptions. Rising...
More »To make India “skilled”, Modi needs to first set primary schools right -Sarojitha Arockiaraj
-Quartz India “If we have to promote the development of our country, then our mission has to be skill development and skilled India,” said prime minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech in 2014. “Millions and millions of Indian youth should acquire the skills… which could contribute towards making India a modern country.” The optimism reflected in the prime minister’s words is encouraging, but is it actually doable? After all, India’s education...
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