-NDTV.com Budget 2022: "Agriculture employs more than half the working population, yet the centre paid little attention," a prominent farm leader said. New Delhi: Farmers are disappointed with the meagre announcements made for them during today's Budget speech by the finance minister, a prominent farm leader who was involved in last year's protests said. Farmers across the country were keenly following the Budget speech with a lot of hope as this is...
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Budget 2022 Shows How Quickly We Forget the Social and Welfare Net That Served Us During COVID -Avani Kapur
-TheWire.in With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive Budget. Unfortunately, the Budget made a clear choice. Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector – particularly with respect to schemes for nutrition – were low. While India relied heavily during the peak of the pandemic last year on its welfare architecture, trends on the release of funds...
More »Union Budget 2022: The Concerns and Numbers Don’t Square Up -Arun Kumar
-TheWire.in Much was expected from the Union Budget 2022 which has come at a time when the Indian economy is facing an economic turmoil due to the coronavirus pandemic and battling widespread unemployment and inflation. High hopes were pinned on this year’s Budget as the country saw young people protesting for Railway jobs, farmers protesting for the government to address their loss of incomes, micro-sector producers as they faced closures and PSU...
More »Budget 2022: Lowest sections of our society who suffered most are not yet part of recovery story -Ashwini Kulkarni
-The Free Press Journal Today’s Budget speech of the Finance Minister was more about Government’s intentions, intentions for a long term horizon like 25 years and little on this years’ specific plans. There is an oft-spoken phrase – where there is a will there's a way. If the policies of a Government is its Will then the Budget is meant to give the Way by providing the means with funds. Today’s Budget...
More »India UnderSpends On Nutrition, New Nutrition Programme Yet To Be Implemented -Avani Kapur and Ritwik Shukla
-IndiaSpend.com The guidelines of the restructured scheme, Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0, are still being worked out and POSHAN 2.0 has not yet been approved, an RTI response revealed New Delhi: In 2021, the government consolidated several programmes for children, adolescent girls and creches, supplementary nutrition and POSHAN (Prime Minister's Overarching Scheme for Holistic Nourishment) into an umbrella programme called Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0. But there is confusion over the objectives...
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