-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Promising to bring a full budget with plans and schemes based on public suggestions around May, the Aam Aadmi Party government on Tuesday sought a vote on account for three months on the total budget estimates of Rs 37,750 crore for 2015-16. Voting will be done on Wednesday. A larger non-plan outlay of Rs 21,500 crore and a smaller plan size of Rs 15,350 crore...
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When The Haze Takes Over -Pavithra S Rangan
-Outlook The NDA seems bent on subverting the RTI Act. Is the slow dismembering of the CIC part of the plan? We Have No Recall For the first time since its inception, CIC's functions expropriated by the govt A search committee set up to appoint a new CIC chief says meeting details cannot be revealed; "highly confidential" RTI appeals pertaining to prime depts...
More »So Richie Rich? Have Another One On Us -P Sainath
-Outlook Corporate karza maafi reaches new heights, social spending new lows This year's budget write-off in customs duty on gold, diamonds and jewellery (all aam aadmi items, of course) is Rs 75,592 crore. That's well over twice the "record" amount allocated to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. As Prof Jayati Ghosh points out, the MNREGA has given billions of person-days of work to tens of millions of poor...
More »We will crowd-source our budget from Delhi's citizens, says Arvind Kejriwal
-PTI New Delhi: In a novel initiative, the Aam Aadmi Party government has decided to involve common people in making Delhi's budget for 2015-16 so that financial allocation can be made based on requirement of various areas. The government also hinted at undertaking an "austerity drive" and reviewing "functioning of unnecessary departments" to plug the wastage of resources. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal told the Delhi assembly that after taking people's opinion on the...
More »Participatory Budget knocking on Delhi's door
Quite opposite to the top-down model of budgeting, the newly elected Aam Aadmi Party-led Government in Delhi has decided to go for a 'citizen-centric' budget planning at 'mohalla'-level for the fiscal year 2015-16. Drawing lessons from the success stories of participatory budgeting conducted at municipal-level in cities like Porto Alegre (Brazil), the AAP-led Delhi Government has decided to launch this form of decentralized budgeting on a pilot basis in a...
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