Tag: budget review
Interim Budget 2024-25: Business as usual, or political gambit?
In the wake of India’s Interim Budget 2024-25, questions arise: Is it a budget of business as usual or a political gambit? With a cautious conservatism characterising the budget, we delve into the numbers, the narratives, and the nuances.
Union Budget 2023-24 reduced welfare spending and didn’t infuse any hope
The Union Budget 2023-24 was Nirmala Sitharaman’s last full-fledged budget with no scope of happiness for the poor. Rather, it comes with rhetoric and attempts to divert the people’s attention from the core issues.
The Union Budget 2022-23 gives no reasons to the poor to be happy
The Union Budget 2022-23 didn’t announce anything significant for 85% Indians, which exhibits Modi’s unapologetic corporate appeasement policy.
As per ritual, Nirmala Sitharaman omitted “unemployment” in budget 2021 speech
Nirmala Sitharaman omitted the term “unemployment” from her budget speech in 2021 just like she did in 2020. Why the government is doing this?
Union Budget 2021-22 is Modi’s anti-poor largesse for the corporates
The Union Budget 2021-22 is unsurprisingly another anti-poor and pro-rich propaganda budget from the Modi regime that has no economic solution
The Economic Survey 2019-20 is less economics more fiction
The Economic Survey 2019-20 report presented by Chief Economic Advisor Krishnamurthy V Subramanian is merely a fiction, fantasies and has no economics in it
Nirmala Sitharaman’s rhetoric-filled budget ignores farmers’ agony and agricultural crisis
Though she spoke in length about rural development, Nirmala Sitharaman’s Union Budget 2019-20 didn’t provide roadmap for farm crisis and farmers’ welfare.
Sithraman’s silence on the unemployment crisis during Union Budget 2019 is a denial of the problem
The Modi regime continues to deny the existence of an unemployment crisis. Nirmala Sitharaman’s silence on unemployment during the budget speech proved it.
The Modi Government’s budget- “Much ado about nothing”
Year after year, budgets are praised and criticised. I find all budgets good, as each budget allocates fund for various schemes/programmes. But when it comes to implementation of these schemes […]
Not Health Insurance, India Needs Robust Public Health System
The Union Budget 2018-19 has one major big-ticket gimmick that is trumpeted by the Modi regime as a significant programme – a health insurance scheme for 100 million families of […]
Know why the Union Budget 2018-19 is an Anti-Farmer Budget
Ever since Finance Minister Arun Jaitley tabled the Union Budget 2018-19, there has been a hullabaloo over the budget’s theme, which the corporate world and the mainstream media controlled by […]
Union Budget 2017-18 is Hollow and Deceitful
PR Economy Desk (02/02/2017): The Union Budget 2017-18 presented by Arun Jaitley on 1st February 2017 was special due to three reasons: It became the first budget since the foundation of […]
Union Budget 2016-17 is Actually an Anti-Poor Budget Concealed in Tri-Colour Package
(This article was first published in March 2016 in the previous version of People’s Review. Due to an incident of hacking the old website was pulled down and we could only […]
