-Macroscan.org/ The Hindu Business Line The centre-pieces of the 2021-22 Budget and the projected Budget for 2022-23 fiscal years is the claim by the Finance Minister to have increased capital expenditure sharply in order to strengthen infrastructure in seven areas (Roads, Railways, Airports, Ports, Mass Transport, Waterways, and Logistics Infrastructure). Please click here to access. * This article was originally published in the Business Line on February 7, 2022. ...
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Bengal seeks 8 crore more mandays under 100-days’ job scheme -Snehamoy Chakraborty
-The Telegraph CM Mamata Banerjee also expressed her concern over the curtailment of allotment for the MGNREGA scheme during an administrative review meeting in Calcutta Bolpur (Birbhum): The Mamata Banerjee government has written to the Centre with a plea to approve 8 crore more mandays under the 100-days’ job scheme for Bengal in the current fiscal after the state achieved its approved labour Budget of 27 crore mandays. “The Centre has so far...
More »Uttarakhand: Since 2017, Drastic Drop In Scholarships Availed by Minority Students
-TheWire.in The Budget for the scheme – which reduced from Rs 3 crore in 2017-18 to Rs 2 lakh in 2020-21 – reflected this decline in students availing of the scholarship. New Delhi: The number of students from minority communities availing the pre-matric scholarship scheme in Uttarakhand dropped by over 100 times between 2017-18 and 2020-21, revealed an RTI filed by the Times of India. The scheme, which is run by the minority...
More »Sanjeev Sanyal, principal economic advisor, interviewed by Kamalika Ghosh (OutlookIndia.com)
-OutlookIndia.com The principal economic advisor is confident of achieving GDP growth promised by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Budget but is also cautious that some external factors can derail the projections Automobiles and two-wheelers are seeing muted sales not because of a low-demand situation afflicting the sector, but because there is a supply-side issue about chips, principal economic advisor to the government Sanjeev Sanyal told Outlook Business. He also said that...
More »A Budget Whose Silences are Ominous -Prabhat Patnaik
-Newsclick.in The people are thus facing increasingly hard times, but in the bland vision of the Modi government, there is no cognisance of it. However, that itself is ominous because when the balance of payments becomes unmanageable, the Modi government will run to the IMF to ask for a rescue package. No Budget in recent memory has been presented at a time when the economy is in such dire straits: unemployment is...
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