-The Indian Express Opposition members said it has no roadmap and does not address the serious issues of agrarian crisis and unemployment. TARGETING THE Union Budget in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, Opposition members said it has no roadmap and does not address the serious issues of agrarian crisis and unemployment. The ruling BJP members countered that the Budget has “everything to take the country to a $5 trillion economy in...
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Reimagining the NITI Aayog -Vijay Kelkar & Abhay Pethe
-The Hindu The institution can play an important role in refreshing India’s fiscal federalism India’s Constitution-makers thought of India as a union of States with a centripetal bias, done, advisedly, to preserve the unity and integrity of a newly fledged nation. Since then, the Indian economy, polity, demography and society have undergone many changes. The new aspirational India is now firmly on a growth turnpike. It is in this context that we...
More »India lost over Rs.90,000 crore to trade misinvoicing, says GFI report
-Livemint.com * Of the total estimated revenue losses, approximately $4 billion was due to export misinvoicing and approximately $9 billion due to import misinvoicing * Almost two-thirds of Indian imports that appear to be most at risk for some degree of potential revenues losses are imports from China New Delhi: India lost a staggering $13 billion, over Rs.90,000 crore, to trade misinvoicing, equivalent to 5.5% of the value of the country's total revenue...
More »UP holds huge potential in agriculture -- it needs right leadership to forge forward-looking path -Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express UP is truly at the crossroads: The state is uniquely poised to leverage opportunities from agriculture and build on the base laid by entrepreneurs, whether in sugar, potatoes, buffalo meat, leather or mentha oil. But, it is equally in danger of being taken back by decades, courtesy leaders with exclusivist and narrow-minded visions. Efforts to market it as an Uttam Pradesh notwithstanding, UP or Uttar Pradesh, is for...
More »Even After Abolishing It, Centre Collected Over Rs 1,300 Crore Under Krishi Kalyan Cess -Dheeraj Mishra
-TheWire.in An RTI response has shown that the government continued to collect money under the cess even after July 1, 2017. New Delhi: The Narendra Modi-led Central government has collected tax worth more than Rs 1,300 crore under the Krishi Kalyan Cess (KKC) despite having abolished it, information received through the Right to Information has revealed. The Ministry of Finance had gradually disposed of several cesses with the Goods and Services Tax (GST)...
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