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The mind-boggling concessions given to the super-rich have led to a massive increase in their wealth. In October 2024, Forbes’ reported that the total net worth of India’s 100 wealthiest tycoons has tripled in the last decade and their wealth had crossed $1 trillion.
Can’t the Government of India increase its social sector expenditures and provide free, good quality education to all our children, make available affordable health care to all our people, guarantee nutrition and care to all our pregnant women and children, guarantee a decent pension to all citizens above the age of 60 years … Of course, it can.
Part A: In 2018, the Niti Aayog came up with new guidelines for allocation of dedicated funds within each Ministry / Department for the welfare of SC/ST communities. This article compares these guidelines with the actual allocations. Part B: The Minorities Budget – shocking cuts.
Why is the government not willing to increase its social sector expenditures — despite the country facing an ‘unemployment, poverty and hunger emergency’? Does it not have the money?
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.
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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