Tag: Nirmala Sitharaman
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.
Why slash on petrol and diesel prices is Modi’s deceitful cosmetic measure?
Why Modi’s late reduction in excise duties and the resulting drop in petrol and diesel prices a mere cosmetic measure by the government now?
The unemployment situation in India has been worsening: it’s time to wake up
As the unemployment situation in India is worsening rapidly, the government and the press are working in tandem to divert mass attention.
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.
Modi’s asset monetisation programme is catastrophic for the economy
Modi’s asset monetisation programme, the NMP is going to be catastrophic for the economy as public assets will be given out on long term lease at a low cost.
GIBA Bill 2021: general insurance privatisation a threat to India’s economy
Nirmala Sitharaman successfully passed the GIBA Bill 2021 to privatise nationalised general insurance companies. This will jeopardise India’s financial security
UFBU’s bank strike success shows employees’ anger against privatisation
UFBU’s two-day-long bank strike on March 15th and 16th 2021 showed the bank employees’ vehement opposition to Modi’s privatisation agenda
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
Budget 2021 epitomises Hindutva quackery in India
The Union Budget 2021-22 is nothing but a Hindutva quackery on an ailing Indian economy, pushing it to the extreme of a pernicious realm.
The Economic Survey 2020-21 exposes Modi government’s failures
The Modi regime’s Economic Survey 2020-21 is a deceitful exercise that has omitted all uncomfortable facts and present a rosy picture.
Is the Indian economy on its path to recovery or is the crisis growing manifold?
Is the Indian economy really on a revival path, as the RBI suggested? Or whether the crisis has aggravated in the recent months?
What’s inside Atmanirbhar Bharat 3.0 package unveiled by Nirmala Sitharaman?
If Nirmala Sitharaman’s Atmanirbhar Bharat 3.0 package is critically analysed then it will be found that it’s absolutely hollow and deceptive
The Indian economy’s crisis intensifies as the government remains nonchalant
The Indian economy’s crisis has intensified in the recent months, but the government remains nonchalant and takes half-hearted measures.
By invoking “Act of God” Sitharaman attempts to bankrupt the states
Why Nirmala Sitharaman invoking “Act of God” clause to deny states their GST dues is actually an illegal action and attack on federalism?
The anti-farmer farm sector reforms to ruin India’s agriculture for corporates
The farm sector reforms unleashed by the Modi regime through three ordinances will help the corporates profiteer at the cost of India’s farmers.
PmeVidya: A platform to disown a larger section of students
The PMeVidya online education programme is launched by the Modi regime for school students. But which class of students can avail online education in India?
Capitalism: An overrated failure story
Why attempts made by governments of different countries, including India’s, to revive capitalism with a stimulus during COVID-19 isn’t feasible at all?
Can a loan package for the MSME sector from Sitharaman help at all?
Can the Modi regime’s Rs 3 trillion-worth loan package for the MSME sector help it survive and provide employment to the workers?