Union Budget 2022-23: Allocation for agricultural education and research reduced

Expenditure on agricultural education, animal science, crop science and management of natural resources reduced in the budget

Union Budget 2022-23: Customs exemption extension on steel scrap will bring temporary relief

It would have been good to see the Centre taking concrete steps to improve domestic scrap availability

Union Budget 2022-23: Will it help children eat better

Schemes that provide integrated benefits to women and children did not get additional funds this year

Union Budget 2022-23: Number of centrally sponsored schemes cut by half

19 schemes under Ministry of Women & Child Development ‘rationalised’ revamped to only 3  

Union Budget 2022-23: Activists express disbelief at sanction of money for river interlinking

River interlinking projects including Ken-Betwa do not have statutory clearances, are sub judice and have hardly progressed in the last two decades, activists say

How green is Union Budget 2022-23?

Electric vehicle policy sees triple boost in this year‘s Union Budget

Union Budget 2022-23: National biomass co-firing policy mooted by CSE in focus

Co-firing to cut CO2 by 38 million tonnes annually, says Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in budget speech  

Union Budget 2022-23 key pointers: One window green clearances

The SEZ Act will be replaced with a new one and with more state participation. 

Union Budget 2022-23: What India really needs

The consensus among economists and experts: The large but voiceless vulnerable sections need government protection and they need it now.