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Budget, Push for Privatisation and Outright Frauds

Touted as the first paperless budget, the budget 2022 was after all a people-less budget that was far removed from the pressing concerns of the day. This was starkly similar to the Economic Survey...

Read more February 23, 2022 at 3:54 pm Ashish Kajla

Economic Survey and Budget 2022 – Hide Facts, Tell Lies, and Provide Irrelevant Statistics

While claiming that India is number one in vaccination, the Economic Survey presents a chart of a few countries, leaving out China. ​To show our spending in the social sector is worthwhile, it provides...

Read more February 10, 2022 at 11:45 am Thomas Franco

Focus of Economic Survey 2020-2021 on Infrastructure Sector

The Union Budget 2021-22, presented on 1st February, focused majorly on infrastructure sector to increase economic growth rates by initiating several new projects and announcing the setting up of a Development Finance Institution for...

Read more February 26, 2021 at 4:46 pm CFA

Unwrapping Economic Survey 2020-21

Three days prior to the Union Budget presentation for the year 2021, Finance Minister Ms. Nirmala Sitaraman introduced Economic Survey on 29th January, 2021 for the FY 2020-2021. It was prepared by Department of Economics...

Read more February 26, 2021 at 4:39 pm Shivani Dwivedi

Is Forbearance the Original Sin?

Chapter 7 of Economic Survey dealing with the banking crisis strongly emphasizes that the continuation of the policy of forbearance followed in the wake of Global Financial Crisis (GFC) even after 2011 was the...

Read more February 19, 2021 at 12:43 pm Priya Dharshini

Faultlines in the path of PSU privatisation

The Economic Survey for 2019-20, on page 158 in Chapter 7 puts it on record that “PSBs are clearly not efficient today”. This is the statement issued by the owner of these banks. If...

Read more February 18, 2020 at 1:53 pm Devidas Tuljapurakar

Analysis of the Economic Survey 2019-2020

The analysis of the Economic Survey 2019-2020 is an attempt to help common people and activists understand the document, as well as the budget 2020 better, in the light of what is said in...

Read more February 14, 2020 at 2:40 pm CFA

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