The Finance Minister has taken a fairly pro-people stance in the Interim Budget announced today. Two things stand out. The first is the tax benefits
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A budget for the ballot – The Hindu BusinessLine
The Modi government has fired the first salvo in its re-election campaign, with sops for everyone from the common man to the cow Prime Minister
Some sweeteners for aam aadmi – The Hindu BusinessLine
Two important changes reduce the tax outgo for the common man The Change There have been two important changes that will reduce the tax outgo
Four policy signals from the Budget – The Hindu BusinessLine
Real estate gets a fillip; taxpayers’ procedural glitches have been eased; assured pensions are back; and tax net is here to stay Most folks who
Elections and beyond – The Hindu BusinessLine
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,
Smart populism: NDA’s last budget takes positive steps which also boost it politically, but risks remain–Times of India
Finance minister Piyush Goyal’s budget, the sixth and last one of the current government, was expected to be crafted with an eye on the forthcoming
Arun Jaitley on NSSO job data report: Absurd to say economy growing without job creation | Business News, The Indian Express
Reacting to the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) job survey of 2017-18 that records a surge in the unemployment rate to over 6 per cent,
The budget has exposed the NDA government’s nervousness | columns | Hindustan Times
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
Need to strictly adhere to a fiscal roadmap from now on | analysis | Hindustan Times
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
Interim Budget 2019: Populist schemes breach convention, says Opposition – The Hindu
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
Interim Budget 2019: an exercise aimed at pleasing farmers, informal workers, salaried taxpayers – The Hindu
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 —
Shopping for votes: on the Interim Budget 2019-20 – The Hindu
As election-eve budgets go, Interim Budget 2019-20 must rank as one of the most politically expedient ones this country has seen. The shadow of the general election
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A cash-for-votes Budget | Deccan Herald
An Interim Budget from an interim minister for a government on its last legs. This is what Piyush Goyal was expected to deliver. Instead, he
Little for agri sector, Budget silent on jobs–Deccan Chronicle
The expectation that interim finance minister Piyush Goyal would present a farmers’ budget after the drubbing his party got in the recent Assembly polls was
NITI Aayog is unaware of jobless rate – The Hindu BusinessLine
Says methodology in NSS report, which places unemployment rate at 6.1% in FY18, is incorrect The government’s policy thinktank NITI Aayog does not know what
Good news or bad? | Business Standard Editorials
The Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has released its revised estimates of national income for 2017-18, in advance of the Union Budget due
Real crisis | Business Standard Editorials
Just a day after two senior members of the National Statistical Commission (NSC) resigned, alleging that the government had withheld the release of a survey
unemployment: Report that says unemployment at 45-year high in 2017-18 not verified, says Niti Aayog – The Economic Times
Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar said the data is being collected in a new manner. The Niti Aayog on Thursday stepped in to clarify on the
A government whose term is ending, has no business announcing policies: Yashwant Sinha – The Economic Times
I am very happy that more and more people are talking about some kind of universal basic income or income support scheme for farmers, Yashwant Sinha,
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