Author: Anil R Tikotekar

Any which way you look at it, elections appear written all over Budget 2018. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has focussed on the distressed sections of

In what could be seen as adopting a middle path – bit of politics as well as economics – the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s Budget

The budget’s focus on health and education will go a long way in enhancing the human capital of the country. The four broad themes of

Suits and boots now finally know whose sarkar this is: the government is for garib (poor) and gram (rural). Poor and rural voters are both

A house with a gas connection, electricity and a toilet for the poor is a clear poll promise from the finance minister.  This was the

The Budget delivered on expectations by committing to broadbase India’s economic growth, while ensuring that the benefits of a sustainable recovery proliferate evenly across all

India will get the world’s largest government funded national health programme, according to the Budget announced by finance minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday. The mega

Job creation will come only out of new investment. This Budget for 2018-19 had to be presented against a background of rising expectations. There were

This is a relatively small budget, 12.9% of GDP, smaller than the budget of 2017-18, which crossed 13% of GDP in size. This is not

The Union Budget for 2018-19 was presented amid concerns over a year of slower economic growth, fiscal stress and farm distress. It was comforting to

By getting NBFCs to play a greater role, using technology to make the credit process easier and addressing NPAs in the SME sector and Budget

A Budget usually strives to strike a fine balance between the government’s immediate political priorities and its attempt to influence overall economic growth. By that

Budget 2018: Former prime minister Manmohan Singh today said it is not possible to double farmers’ income by 2022 until the agricultural growth is 12

Budget 2018: Describing the budget as “pragmatic”, noted economist Arvind Panagariya today said the coverage of 100 million families for expenses up to Rs 500,000

Union Budget 2018: In the Union Budget 2018, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that there has been a mass formalization of MSMEs after structural reforms

Given the tremendous success of the GST Council in making cooperative federalism work to smoothen the glitches in the GST process—the fact that GST revenues

For every rupee in the government coffer, 19 paise will come from market borrowing and other liabilities in 2018-19, even as it will spent 18

Sleep metaphors have always been popular in describing central budgets. These are variously called “dream” or “nightmare” budgets, usually depending on which side you are

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley may have blotted his copybook by conceding a slippage in his fiscal deficit target of 3.2% of gross domestic product (GDP)