BJP’s maiden budget disappointing for farmers
Jaitley continues with UPA schemes on agriculture, allocates more funds
Health
Funding for the National Health Mission has been reduced by 20 per cent; spending on public health will also be reduced by 8 per cent
Budget biased towards Andhra, fumes Telangana
Country’s newest state gets a horticulture university and a Debt Recovery Tribunal while Andhra gets an IIT, AIIMS, 20 industrial clusters …
Why Rs 200 crore for Patel statue?
Statue of Unity, projected as the world’s tallest structure, has no environment clearance and will displace tribals
Jairam Ramesh seeks to minimise budget cut for rural development
Gives details to finance ministry on the impact of revised budget estimates on individual schemes
Elusive hunt for skills and jobs
Budget outlays will not do much for job creation or readying youth for skilled work
Budget offers big push for rural infrastructure
Green transportation gets lip service
India set for mission Mars
Budget proposes Rs 125 crore for the ambitious project
Beyond a flailing state
Health ministry cannot provide basic services, the finance ministry cannot collect taxes and the chaos of governance worsens
Union Budget 2019-20: Blue sky thinking hits grey sky limit
New budget gives miss to blue-sky mission. Offers only a few sectoral hooks in transport and energy to nudge clean air action
AIDS epidemic can end by 2030: UNAIDS
India reverses HIV epidemic, but reports high number of new infections
Too little in environment ministry's kitty
Reduction in ministry's budget by almost half expected to hit forestry research the most
A token gesture for food security
Activists say the budget lays bare governmentÔÇÖs intentions over food security bill
Budget holds much-needed rural reform
Proposes to redefine backward region
Too little for renewables
The sector remains a low priority for government
Paris foretold and forewarned: what to expect from COP21
The French government knows it cannot make the same blunders as the Danish government made in Copenhagen in 2009, when trust between countries&…
100 to 0: Union budget gives smart cities a miss
With nothing concrete to show on ground or on paper, are smart cities being offloaded?
Real estate: Market happy, but civil society finds it lacking
External commercial borrowings in low-income housing projects will become unaffordable, they say
Taxation and inequality: expectations from Union Budget 2013-14
It is imperative that the forthcoming Budget recognises that fair taxation policies are at the core of addressing inequality in the country
Experts raise concern over exceeding carbon budget by 2030
Global warming will exceed two degrees Celsius unless actions are taken on a war like footing, feel researchers
India needs to invest in clean energy to meet targets
Industry says announcement of loans and performance-based incentives in budget will invigorate sector
Budget through the years
Agriculture: wrong prescription for right diagnosis
Finance minister’s decision to increase farm credit corpus and give more autonomy to states for agriculture schemes unlikely to help farmers
India falls short of achieving increased power generation capacity
Government pins hopes on private investment in renewable energy sector by offering fiscal and financial incentives
Money set aside to build institutions, not public health
Preventive and primary healthcare get a miss in the budget 2014