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The estimates of India’s GDP for Q4 2022-23 show a growth rate of 6.1% over Q4 2021-22; for 2022-23 as a whole, the GDP growth rate comes to 7.2%, a shade higher than expected. But this makes not an iota of difference to one’s assessment of the current state of India’s economy.
The fact that the planned joint opposition in Patna was postponed has created rumours that such unity may not be achieved before 2024. This fear, however, is almost certain to prove groundless.
The focus of the railways on ‘improving passenger experience and comfort’ which is actually a push towards elitisation of railways, along with an obsession with speed, is taking place at the cost of neglecting passenger safety – and it is this that has led to the Balasore train tragedy.
PUCL strongly condemns the brutal manner by which the Delhi Police forcibly arrested the women wrestlers on 28 May 2023; Also: “Attack on Protesting Wrestlers: Whither PM’s Beti Bachao Slogan?, Ask 1500+ Citizens”
Pt 1: Modi Gov’t Ignores Internal Red Flags on Health Risks to Force Fortified Rice on Poor; Pt 2: Confidential NITI Aayog Report Reveals Centre Bungled Rice Fortification Pilot Projects; Pt 3: Fortified Rice a Bonanza for a Dutch Firm.
Despite the already abysmally low social sector expenditures of the country, the Centre has made huge cuts in its spending on the people to compensate for the huge increase in capex (and the meagre increase in budget outlay).
59% of Nagar Palika Parishad members and 67% of Nagar Panchayat members are independents.
In the third part of this series, we take a look at the overall approach of the Modi Government towards budgetary revenues and budgetary spending. That would give us pointers towards examining this year’s budget — to see if anything has changed.
In the absence of official data, an analysis of CMIE data reveals that: employment opportunities are persistently low, available jobs are low paying and with no job security, the working population constantly shifts from one job to another in search of sustenance.
In this second part of this year’s budget analysis, we take a look at the economic situation in the country, in the background of which the FM presented her budget.
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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