-The Financial Express Budget 2018: The government claims that this is the Budget for a “new India”.However, this vision excludes rural workers, small & marginal farmers and the unorganised sector. Many claims are being made about the farm sector. The fact is even the “optics” only partially meet these. The substance of this Budget shows how little it caters to farmers, and the economically & politically marginalised. The demand of farmers agitating...
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Budget 2018 has incentivised unsustainable groundwater use: SANDRP -Jayashree Bhosale
-The Economic Times PUNE: The Budget allocated Rs 2600 crore for ground water irrigation scheme in 96 deprived irrigation districts. However, water sector activists claim this scheme will blindly incentivise use of groundwater in unsustainable matter. The Finance Minister announced in his speech: Ground water irrigation scheme under Prime Minister Krishi Sinchai Yojna- Har Khet ko Pani will be taken up in 96 deprived irrigation districts where less than 30% of the...
More »'Of Hits and Misses: Analysis of Union Budget 2018-19' -CBGA
-Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA) Union Budget 2018-19 is the fifth and the final full-year Budget of the current ruling dispensation. The major plank on which this government was elected in 2014 with an exceptional mandate were issues of development related to reducing corruption, generating meaningful employment opportunities, tackling inflation (especially food inflation, an issue plaguing the economy at that point of time), reducing inequality, and pushing the economy...
More »What the US Health Insurance Programme Can Teach India -Rama V Baru
-TheWire.in Why has India chosen the path of expanding medical insurance instead of a more comprehensive approach to health? The concern with rising inequities in access to medical care, rising out-of-pocket expenditures and unmet treatment needs have been addressed with yet another targeted medical insurance scheme for poor households. The idea of a targeted medical insurance is not new. Several southern states like Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka had introduced such schemes many...
More »Will Use Formula That Farmers Want: Niti Aayog Boss On Budget Pledge -Mala Das
-NDTV Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had announced a 1.5-time hike in MSP or minimum support price for certain crops in his Budget. But how that would pan out had farmers' groups worried. One of the biggest announcements in this year's Budget was the promise to fix minimum support prices, the price at which the government buys crops from farmers, at 50 per cent over their cost of production. But the decision has...
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