-Scroll.in Already 21 states have no funds and pending liabilities of Rs 6359 crore – as much as 16% of the outlay. Presenting his third budget, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced an outlay of Rs 38,500 crore to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural employment Guarantee scheme. This was the second consecutive year the finance minister increased the outlay for the rural works scheme, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi had last February attacked...
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UPA’s flagship MGNREGA receives a fresh lease of life -Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express ‘Expect 215 crore person-days of employment in 2016-17’ The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA), the flagship welfare programme of the previous UPA dispensation, seems to have received a fresh lease of life. This, barely a year after PM Narendra Modi had called it a “living monument of your (the Congress’s) failure to tackle poverty in 60 years”. Arun Jaitley’s Union budget for 2016-17 has provided a...
More »Why the Budget numbers don’t add up -Rohit Azad
-The Hindu The belt-tightening requires the poor to pay increased indirect taxes while the cushion of the social sector is consistently taken away from them. There is always a hype around a Union Budget but this time around, the expectations were running sky-high in terms of it being the make-or-break Budget for the Narendra Modi-led government since it happens to be in the middle of his five-year term. I must say at...
More »Government tries to harvest success with farmer-friendly Budget -Richard Mahapatra
-Down to Earth The 2016 Budget has the right intent for the rural sector, but lacks clarity Union finance minister Arun Jaitley devoted a major part of his third budget speech to “transform India” and of the nine pillars to achieve the goal, three were on strengthening the rural sector. Altogether, the rural sector (including irrigation and agriculture) received close to Rs 200,000 crore this Budget, which makes one point clear:...
More »The ‘human face’ of Budget 2016-17 -CP Chandrasekhar
-The Hindu With an eye on the upcoming elections in different States, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has declared that he is presenting a Budget that provides “additional resources for vulnerable sections, rural areas and social and physical infrastructure”. But since aggregate expenditure in nominal terms is slated to rise by just 10.8 per cent between this financial year and the next, that seems difficult to believe. Consider, for example, the...
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