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Considering the grim poverty situation in the country, the least the government can do for the elderly is provide them a decent old age pension. This article discusses the Modi Government’s budgetary allocations for pension schemes for the poor.
The Finance Minister has been claiming that the record high Gender Budget signals the government’s commitment for enhancing women’s role in economic development. In this article, we analyse the Gender Budget Statement.
The Modi Government released a National Health Policy in March 2017 that promised to increase the health expenditure of the Centre and States to 2.5% of GDP by 2025. This article discusses the Modi Government’s actual health policy during the past ten years.
India is facing a hunger and malnutrition crisis. In this article, we examine the Modi Government’s budgetary allocations for the various schemes meant to address the nutrition requirements of the people in the eleven budgets presented from 2014 to 2024.
In a recent speech, PM Modi stated that agriculture is at the centre of India’s economic policy. He also highlighted the initiatives being taken by his government in promoting natural and climate-resilient farming. We examine these claims in the context of the eleven budgets presented by the Modi government since 2014.
In this article, we first discuss the National Education Policy 2020, and then the budget allocations for school and higher education in the eleven budgets presented by the Modi Government from 2014-15 to 2024-25.
The FM has made a huge increase in the Centre’s capital expenditure (capex) for four successive years. To compensate for the increase in capex, the FM needs to reduce the budget spending on some other heads. The axe has fallen on welfare spending on the poor.
One of the biggest announcements made by FM Nirmala Sitharaman in her 2024 budget speech relates to employment generation. We analyse the PM’s employment package in this article.
The Indian economy is in deep crisis. Therefore, for the economy to have a sustained recovery, it is important that the government greatly increases its expenditure. In this article, we analyse the Modi Government’s budget outlays of the past 10 years.
Within the limited budget outlay, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced a hike in capital expenditure (or capex) — of 17.1 percent. This is the fourth year in succession that she has hiked capex. An increase in capex, without increasing budget outlay, is not going to lead to economic growth and employment generation. We discuss this in this article.
Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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