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?
What is in the Union Budget 2021-22 for children? Not much
The budget continues to deprive pregnant women, lactating mothers and children from vital benefits of schemes and interventions
Nutri-farms to fight hidden hunger
In a first, bio-fortification technology gets Rs 200 crore in the Union Budget
Budget through the years
Panchayats to spend Rs 1.42 lakh crore on water and sanitation
Spend 60% grant on water and sanitation: 15th Finance Commission recommends to rural local bodies
Union Budget 2021-22: Time to step up public investment in nutrition
Nutrition interventions, with an already faltering coverage, hit a blockade due to COVID-19 disruptions; the Union Budget is a critical …
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
Unmasking the Budget
The last full budget presented by Arun Jaitley was overwhelmingly focused on agriculture and public health. The catch lies in what he did not say
Budget 2015 proves a dampener for climate action
Finance minister talks about Clean Energy Fund, but forgets crop insurance
Can India be ‘atmanirbhar’ by cutting budget for children
While total allocations to Union budget 2021-22 saw an increase of 14.5%, the share for children declined by 10.8% compared to 2020
As told to Parliament (March 21, 2022): PM10 pollution worsened in 31 cities in 2020-21, decreased in 96
All that was discussed in the House through the day
Union budget 2020-21 - explained in 15 charts
Nirmala Sitharaman's budget has little to offer rural India. Allocation to several schemes were slashed below 2019-20 revised estimates&…
Budget 2020-21: Will MGNREGA become an overarching rural development scheme
The upcoming budget will see many schemes being brought under the rural employment prtogramme; a direct cash transfer may be declared to top this up
Budget 2023-24: New mission for welfare of PVTGs launched
Rs 15,000 crore allocated to Pradhan Mantri PVTG mission for next three years
2022 too short, too far: How did the economy fare last year
Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from 2022
Budget 2013-14: provisioning for universal healthcare or moving away from agenda?
The world trend is to move towards public health systems, but developments in India seem to be in the opposite direction
Countdown to Budget 2023: Why investing in early childhood education should be a priority in the upcoming Budget
Just 0.1% of the GDP was spent in 2020-21 for early childhood education, thinktank analysis suggests 1.5%-2.5% of GDP expenditure
Allocate 3 per cent of GDP to healthcare, says Indian Medical Association
Recommendations for Union Budget 2013-14 include wooing private sector; public health experts sceptical
Budget bites on vehicles
Fails to restrain use of subsidised diesel in private diesel cars
Are our budgets participatory?
Legislative scrutiny of budget in India compares with that of Afghanistan and Rwanda
Plan spending on social sectors and a paradox in budgetary policies
Central government's social spending is just 2 per cent of GDP, yet it may reduce allocation for welfare sectors by citing inability of the …
Budget 2023-24 live: Greening the economy is among top 7 priorities, says Nirmala Sitharaman in budget speech
Live updates from the budget speech February 1, 2023
How we reviewed NDA’s interim budget last year
Modi government’s maiden budget was a patchwork of abandoned schemes being revived or existing ones being re-named. Despite some fund …
Experts disappointed with budgetary allocation to renewables
There has been a 46.8 per cent decrease in gross budgetary support for renewable energy ministry, they say
A step-by-step guide on how Union budget is formulated
To start the process, the budget division issues an annual budget circular around the last week of August or the first fortnight of September …