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Welfare schemes

How the row over ‘freebies’ hides India’s failure to meet the basic needs of its citizens

While it targets welfare schemes, the Union government has also written off crores in outstanding loans for India’s rich and given huge corporate tax rebates.

Read more August 30, 2022 at 2:16 pm Anirban Bhattacharya

What is wrong with the language of neoliberal economics?

Have you ever wondered why food and fertilizer assistance to poor citizens is called “subsidy” but tax assistance (tax cuts, tax holidays etc.) to rich corporates is called “incentive” or “stimulus”? Or why when...

Read more April 25, 2022 at 4:49 pm Prasanna Mohanty

It’s Not Freebies, it’s Our Right!

On 3rd April, the Prime Minister held a meeting with the Secretaries of various departments.  As per reports, several top bureaucrats flagged their concerns over populist schemes and freebies announced by political parties during...

Read more April 25, 2022 at 12:48 pm Thomas Franco

Modi’s welfare offers: Extreme poverty led people to condone govt failures during polls

One of the striking factors in the BJP’s electoral win in the recently concluded election in five states is the role welfarism played in overcoming anti-incumbency. Ground reports and political analysts have reported and...

Read more April 2, 2022 at 1:03 pm Prasanna Mohanty

Report: Citizens Report on Four Years of Modi Government

The report “Citizens’ Report on the “Four Years of the NDA Government, 2014-18: Promises & Reality” – a civil society initiative’ is a collective work by experts, development networks and civil society organisations working...

Read more May 21, 2018 at 12:24 pm CFA

Booklet: Reflections on the Union Budget 2018-19 from the Margins

Union Budget 2018-19: Issues of Marginalised Sections

Read more February 7, 2018 at 4:40 pm CFA

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