-TheWire.in While the government claims it “will bring healthcare system closer to the homes of people,” it hopes to do this through the private sector, not by strengthening the public health system. Health is being haiLED as the biggest winner of Budget 2018, but a cursory look at the numbers shows that there is nothing to celebrate as far as the health budget is concerned. In fact, the Budget this year once...
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Why Budget 2018 is too late, too little for the rural economy -Himanshu
-Livemint.com While Budget 2018’s agriculture focus may not revive the rural economy, whether it fetches any votes for the Narendra Modi govt will only be known next year Since this was the last full budget of the Narendra Modi-LED government before the general elections next year, its contours were more or less known to everybody. The budget in that sense did not surprise. Given the tight fiscal situation, it was expected that...
More »The last budget of Modi government -Himanshu
-Livemint.com The budget to be presented on 1 February may be the last full budget of the Narendra Modi government unless it uses the opportunity to revive the economy The budget to be presented on 1 February will be the last full budget of this government. The budget in 2019 will only be a vote-on-account. But whether this will be the last full budget of the Narendra Modi government will depend on...
More »Taking their cue from economic survey, activists attack govt for failing to address farm concerns -Vishwa Mohan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Flagging poor returns to farmers due to low minimum support price (MSP) and inadequate market interventions, farm activists on Tuesday demanded setting up a permanent statutory commission on farmers' income and asked the government to take measures to ensure remunerative prices to cultivators and make the farming climate resilient. Pointing at the economic survey which found only a slight increase in real agriculture income in the...
More »Union Budget 2018: Govt ensures payment of full MSP even if farmers sell below price
-Deccan Chronicle The finance minister said the agricultural output of the country is at a record high and wage of farmers will be doubLED by 2022. New Delhi: The Narendra Modi-LED NDA government presented the Union Budget 2018-19 on Thursday. In the last full-fLEDged Budget of the BJP government Finance Minister Arun Jaitley tabLED a lot of proposals for the agriculture and the rural economy. For agiculture sector, the Budget 2018...
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