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Issues of Marginalized Sections: Analysis of Union Budget 2018-19 by Delhi Solidarity Group

-Press Release by National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM) The Delhi Solidarity Group (DSG) has come out with a critique of the Union Budget 2018-19. Please click here to access the report by DSG entitled: Issues of Marginalized Sections: Analysis from the perspectives of Handloom, Fisheries, Dalits, Adivasis, Forest, Agriculture, Banking and Financing, Urban Housing, Rural Development, Land & Higher Education. The following civil society organizations have contributed for the preparation...

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Union Budget 2018-19: An exercise in jugglery of numbers, say civil society groups

-Press Release by National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM) New Delhi: Calling this year’s union budget ‘just an exercise in manipulation of numbers,’ veteran activist Medha Patkar asked, “When the major decisions like the demonetisation and GST are taken between two budgets then what’s the relevance of the Budget?,” at a panel discussion on the analysis of this year’s union budget with a special focus on Handloom, Fisheries, Dalits, Adivasis, Forest,...

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How NDA compares with UPA on government workforce

-HowIndiaLives.com/ Livemint.com The number of government employees under UPA I fell 2.7% and under UPA II rose 3.4%. In the four years of NDA, their count is projected to increase 7.2% by 2017-18 For a government whose stated calling card is “minimum government, maximum governance”, for a government battling to create jobs, its own house paints another picture: in four years under this Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), the number...

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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...

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Budget 2018: Kiska Saath, Kiska Vikas? -N Paul Divakar

-TheWire.in The Dalit and Adivasi community’s analysis of the budget shows gross under allocation – only 50.7% has been allocated towards targeted schemes for SCs and 51.24% for STs. On the 26th January 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In Politics we will have equality and in the social and economic life we will have inequality. In Politics we will recognize the principle of one man one...

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