The 2025 Union Budget is more than an economic planтАФitтАЩs a pre-election strategy designed to secure votes, especially in┬аDelhi and Bihar, where elections were announced. With a large portion of DelhiтАЩs voters comprising the...
There is a euphoria around the тАЬtax bonanzaтАЭ offered to the middle classes in this yearтАЩs Budget. The proposal of no tax for those with annual income up to Rs 12 lakh has been...
As expected, the budget for the National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) тАУ a crucial centrally-sponsored social security scheme that provides non-contributory pensions to the most marginalised populations including the elderly, widows, and persons with...
With 14 million Indians estimated to be displaced by climate change and environmental crises, a number expected to exceed 45 million over the next 25 years, climate-induced displacement and migration is a blindspot in...
A reading of the budget and the Economic Survey is a crucial exercise to understand the direction that the economy is taking. It gives a sense of how responsive is a government to the...
Slogans modified. No efforts to revive the Economy. In a surprise, Dr. Ananda Nageswaran, Chief Economic Advisor, with his team of more than 150 people, produced an Economic Survey 2025 with certain critical comments....
The Economic Survey 2025 tabled by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, projects a ┬а6.3 – 6.8% growth rate for FY 26, ahead of the Union Budget 2025-26. But, what does it mean to the common...
A PeopleтАЩs Blueprint for the 2025-26 Budget! At the threshold of the 2025 budget, the vitals of the economy are causing alarm to those who are bothered to look beyond the hyperbole and manufactured...
The entire economy of the country is under stress today. Unprecedented unemployment, lack of support for micro enterprises, communal tensions, lack of markets for produce, intermediaries taking a major share of the profit, erosion...
Peoples Commission on Public Sector and Public Services has issued a statement on tax structure which the Finance Minister should look into. All over the world there are changes proposed in the tax system...