-The Tribune The UPA's flagship programme MGNREGS changed the employment scene for the rural poor. While 100-day job guarantee was a novel step, loopholes and poor implementation rendered it a liability. The Modi govt hopes to gradually reinvent the scheme, if not entirely scrap it. Midway through the Congress-led UPA's second tenure - believed to be largely the courtesy of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) -...
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-The Telegraph New Delhi: India continues to lag on human development indicators in spite of a slew of welfare programmes, with a UNDP report released today ranking it 135th among 187 countries that were judged on progress in areas such as life expectancy, education, income and employment. Analysts blame India's poor performance on lack of Accountability in implementation of the welfare programmes. Former National Advisory Council member N.C. Saxena said state governments...
More »CBGA ’ s Press Release on Union Budget 2014-15
-Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability New Delhi: The first budget of the new government offers few changes in terms of policy priorities from the interim budget for 2014-15 presented earlier this year, but it does reinforce some of the pro-market inclinations that had defined the last three budgets of the UPA-II government. The total size of the Union Budget in 2014-15 was projected in the interim budget to be...
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-Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability Please click here to access the budget analysis report entitled Has the Tide Turned?: Response to Union Budget 2014-15, which was done by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability in July, 2014. ...
More »India needs more than Narendra Modi's trickle-down model -Maitreesh Ghatak
-The Guardian India's PM points to Gujarat as an emblem of economic success. But despite impressive growth, the state lags behind on welfare Narendra Modi has just unveiled his first budget after winning a massive electoral victory on a development platform. The budget presented last week has disappointed those who were expecting stronger signals about a pro-market shift in economic policy, as well as in the stock market. However, the budget has...
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