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Budget For National Social Assistance Programme Remains Stagnant Yet Again

As expected, the budget for the National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) – a crucial centrally-sponsored social security scheme that provides non-contributory pensions to the most marginalised populations including the elderly, widows, and persons with...

Read more February 4, 2025 at 10:52 am Asmi Sharma and Nancy Pathak

The Ostrich Budget: An Analysis of the Union Budget 2025-26

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...

Read more February 3, 2025 at 8:07 pm CFA

The OPS, NPS, UPS Pension Debate

CFA Explainers The Unified Pension Scheme (UPS) launched by the government as its compromise formula is being celebrated by the godi media as the “best of both worlds”, i.e. the Old Pension Scheme (OPS)...

Read more September 3, 2024 at 7:35 pm CFA

Pension is not a bounty or grace, it is the right of every worker 

India is ranked 45th in the Pension Grade System of 47 countries. The USA ranked 22nd is a capitalist country but 100% of its population is covered under a pension system. In most countries...

Read more September 3, 2024 at 11:42 am Thomas Franco

Social Security Budget: A Forgotten Footnote

The government's budgetary allocations and poor implementation of welfare policies paint a concerning picture of oversight and disregard.

Read more August 2, 2024 at 3:50 pm Asmi Sharma and Nancy Pathak

Budget 2024: How the Modi Government Has Neglected Social Security Pensions Once Again

There is an urgent need to review the National Social Assistance Programme for it to be effective and meaningful.

Read more February 2, 2024 at 4:29 pm Asmi Sharma

The Fiscal Challenges of the Realization of Workers’ Rights: Do They Exist?

For the past 36 years, banks' pensions have not been upgraded. No social security, like universal basic income, is considered. The vast majority of unorganised sector workers (94%) do not have access to provident...

Read more December 23, 2022 at 4:43 pm Thomas Franco

Pension and other Social Security – India lags far behind

Our country’s constitution talks of equality, equal opportunity and social justice.  But unfortunately, even after 74 years, we lag behind in social security.

Read more April 16, 2022 at 1:16 pm Thomas Franco

More Privatisation, less Accountability- How did the Indian Economy fare last month?

In pursuance of its policy of monetisation of national assets, the government earlier this month approved the setting up of the National Land Monetisation Corporation (NLMC). It would be a government-owned company with the...

Read more April 1, 2022 at 12:12 pm Anirban Bhattacharya

Has the SBI become too big to govern?

'The rot within' is the title of an article of Ms. Purnima. S. Tripathi, wrote in the Frontline magazine, in its March 25, 2022 issue. The article further states – 'State Bank of India,...

Read more March 25, 2022 at 5:09 pm Thomas Franco

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