-The Telegraph Check out numbers for transfers to states, GST collections and income tax Finance minister Piyush Goyal tried to make people happy with his maiden budget ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, but ended up serving on a platter ammunition that chief ministers such as Mamata Banerjee, Arvind Kejriwal, H.D. Kumaraswamy and N. Chandrababu Naidu are likely to make full use of in the hustings. The campaign managers of the opposition parties...
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Budget 2019: Pension Scheme for Unorganised Workers Is Yet Another Illusion -Sudhir Katiyar
-TheWire.in The new scheme, similar to other programmes launched by the Modi government, shows how divorced Lutyens Delhi is from the dust and grime of real India. The NDA government in its last budget before the election has announced an ambitious pension scheme for unorganised sector workers. Given its tendency for hyperbole, the scheme is already being touted as the largest pension scheme in the world with 100 million potential beneficiaries. It would...
More »Interim Budget 2019: 'Gokul Mission funds have not been suitably utilised at all' -Jitendra
-Down to Earth The scheme is just 'lip service' for the Modi government says official even as Piyush Goyal allocates Rs 750 crore to it Usually, the Union government’s Budget is allocated for all types of livestock and animal husbandry development purposes. On February 1, 2019, interim Minister of Finance Piyush Goyal eulogised cattle in his speech and allocated Rs 750 crore for them under the Rashtriya Gokul Mission (RGM). RGM is...
More »Thomas Piketty & Angus Deaton help frame Rahul Gandhi's minimum income promise -DK Singh
-ThePrint.in British economist Angus Deaton, a 2015 Nobel Prize winner, and French economist Thomas Piketty are helping Congress shape its minimum income scheme. New Delhi: Angus Deaton, the British economist who won the Nobel Prize in 2015, and French economist Thomas Piketty are advising the Congress on its ambitious poll promise of minimum income guarantee (MIG) to the poor, party leaders have told ThePrint. Congress president Rahul Gandhi declared Monday that the party...
More »Modi Govt Will Prepare New NSSO Report to Show 'Increase in Jobs', Says PM's Economic Advisor
-News18.com The leaked report recorded unemployment rate of 6.1 percent in 2017-18, giving the opposition Congress ammunition to attack and pushing the NDA government in defensive mode. New Delhi: A day the National Sample Survey Office’s Periodic Labour Force Survey recorded the unemployment rate in India at a 45-year-high, Prime Minister’s Economic Advisor, Bibek Debroy said that they will prepare a fresh jobs report. “The survey will show that there has been...
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