Environment
Wishful thinking
The finance minister's budget speech has come and gone. As analysts sit down to shred it to bits, Down To Earth looks at a wish list of proposals for a green budget
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ecological security
The common persons burden | |||
| Ministry | Plan Allocation | Non-Plan Allocation | Babu cost* |
| All ministries | 1,13,500.00 | 2,96,809.47 | 31,590.06 |
| Ministry of Environment and Forests | 990.00 | 121.05 | 64.13 |
| Ministry of Water Resources | 550.00 | 226.75 | 190.93 |
| Note: All figures in Rs crore. * Babu cost has been arrived at in this manner: The budget documents contain details of the number of employees in each ministry and the total outlay on pay, allowances (other than travel) and travel expenses. The three figures are added up to arrive at the babu cost. | |||
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The common person's burden
The author is Fulbright fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
, on leave from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi