Author: Anil R Tikotekar

Despite the situation on the ground, the friendly statistics office may have raised its estimates of GDP growth significantly just the day before the budget,

The challenge in any election year Budget before every finance minister is how to give sops to the electorate without straining the fiscal deficit. In

The agriculture sector was quite the focus in the Union Budget 2018-19 and that continued in the interim Budget presented on February 1, 2019. Proposals

This is not an Interim Budget. What Finance Minister Piyush Goyal presented on Friday has no resemblance with any of the previous three Interim Budgets presented by

The Interim Budget 2019-20, in fact, suggests paradigm shifts in social security policies Interim Budgets often tend to be long on populism and short-termism. However,

The showstopper of this 2019 budget is the PM-Kisan Scheme (PMKS): a Rs 6,000 per year direct income transfer for small and marginal farmers with

While the general backdrop for the presentation of any Union budget is noisy in a democracy like India, the economic backdrop for this year’s interim

Chidambaram questions ‘unprecedented’ announcements in interim Budget The announcement of a string of populist measures in the interim Budget has been accompanied by a breach

With a keen eye on the elections, the interim Budget 2019-20 contained elements that are aimed at benefiting three major segments of the population —

अल्पभूधारकांना वेतन व पगारदारांना करसवलत यामुळे सरकारच्या तिजोरीत होणारी तूट भरून कशी काढणार, याचे उत्तर अर्थमंत्र्यांच्या निवेदनात नाही.. एक निवडणूक पराभवाची भीती सत्ताधाऱ्यांना काय काय