-Hindustan Times Nawanshahr: “The Budget is far removed from reality.” That is how young Meet Pal Singh, an MBA who has set up a polyhouse in Mahalon village of Nawanshahr, dismisses the Budget. The tall light-eyed youth, who is feted as a progressive farmer in the area, says the Modi government should first focus on implementing the MS Swaminathan report for farmers before coming up with a new set of proposals. Dr...
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Balancing act in Budget 2017 is a curse for the poor -Yogendra Yadav
-Firstpost.com It was a replay of last year. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley read out his Budget speech, paying special attention to agriculture and rural areas. He highlighted a few figures. The media caught on to his words and figures and declared the Budget to be pro-farmer, pro-rural and pro-poor. We analysed the FM speech in our KisanSansad, held this year at Jantar Mantar, to coincide with the Budget presentation. We were disappointed...
More »How the Krishi Kalyan Cess funded flagship schemes for farmers -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com Krishi Kalyan Cess, a 0.5% cess on all taxable services introduced last year to support a drought-hit farm sector, will raise Rs 9,000 crore in 2016-17 New Delhi: Krishi Kalyan Cess, a 0.5% cess on all taxable services introduced last year to support a drought-hit farm sector, will raise Rs 9,000 crore in 2016-17, Budget documents presented in the parliament on Wednesday showed. The central government is spending money from this corpus...
More »Budget 2017: High on rhetoric, low on delivery -Himanshu
-Livemint.com While there have been some positives, including the reforms on political funding, the real test of the Budget was the ability to manage spending to revive the economy This was the fourth Budget of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government. Coming at a time when the world around is full of uncertainties, more was expected from the Budget than what has been delivered. The domestic uncertainty is certainly the outcome of demonetisation....
More »Nice To See NREGA Trending. But Urgent Fixes Needed. -Reetika Khera
-NDTV The "highest ever allocation" to NREGA (which also led to it trending on Twitter) in the Union Budget has provided a useful opportunity to raise some pressing issues related to the implementation of the scheme. It is natural, and welcome, that the government turn to NREGA to provide much-needed relief to those whose already precarious lives have been disrupted by demonetization, a man-made economic disaster. Widespread reports of job losses...
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