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.
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 didn’t announce anything significant for 85% Indians, which exhibits Modi’s unapologetic corporate appeasement policy.
Nirmala Sitharaman omitted the term “unemployment” from her budget speech in 2021 just like she did in 2020. Why the government is doing this?
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 report presented by Chief Economic Advisor Krishnamurthy V Subramanian is merely a fiction, fantasies and has no economics in it
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.
The Modi regime continues to deny the existence of an unemployment crisis. Nirmala Sitharaman’s silence on unemployment during the budget speech proved it.
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 in a timely manner, I see miserable failure all around. While many false promises are made by all political parties, people expected a lot from … Read more
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 the country, which includes 500 million people, with an insurance cover of ₹500,000 per household. This is, of course, the largest health insurance scheme run … Read more
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 it labelled as a pro-farmer budget, much before the BJP laid the same claim on the last full budget of the Modi regime. This eccentric … Read more
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 the Indian republic when the railway and general budgets were clubbed together into one The Union Budget 2017-18 is a slightly controlled budget because the … Read more
(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 restore the old articles in this section) The Union budget for the FY 2016-17 presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and hailed by the corporate … Read more