Budget 2025: What’s at Stake?, a series co-produced by The Wire and Centre for Financial Accountability
Episode 1
The Economic Rights Every Indian Should Have | Prabhat Patnaik (Senior Economist)
Episode 2
Budget 2025 Needs to Focus on the Unorganised Sector | Arun Kumar (Senior Economist)
Episode 3
Research, Essential Services, Medicine Production: The Health Budget India Needs | Indranil (Professor, School of Government and Public Policy, OP Jindal Global University, & associated with Jan Swasthya Abhiyan)
Episode 4
What Kind of Budget Does India’s Banking Sector Need | Thomas Franco (Social activist, banking reform advocate, and former General Secretary of the All India Bank Officers’ Confederation (AIBOC).)
Episode 5
MGNREGA Is Essential for the Economy, Govt Shouldn’t Use it in Opportunistic Ways | Anuradha Talwar (Social Activist and Educator)
Episode 6
A Wealth Tax on the Super Rich Would Help Address India’s Inequalities | Jayati Ghosh, Economist & Professor, University of Massachusetts
Episode 7
How the Budget can be Sensitive to Dalit & Adivasi Needs | Beena Pallical, Human Rights Activist & general secretary of the Dalit Arthik Adhikar Andolan.
Episode 8
Five Ways in which the Budget Can be More Climate Sensitive | Soumya Dutta , Climate Justice activist and researcher.
Episode 9
Budget 2025 Must Ensure Higher Investment in Agriculture and Rural Development | Vijoo Krishnan , General Secretary of All India Kisan Sabha
Episode 10
India Needs Neighbourhood Schools, the Budget Should Work in That Direction | Dinesh Abrol , Professor, Institute of Studies in Industrial Development
Episode 11
Budget Should Support Dietary Diversity to Ensure Food Security in India | Dipa Sinha , Development Economist & Academic
Episode 13
Budget Should Reflect That Pensions Are Not a Dole, They Are a Right | Nikhil Dey , Rights Activist & Founding Member of Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan
Episode 14
Affordable Housing, Public Transport, Climate Resilience: What the Budget can do for Cities | Tikender Singh Panwar , Public policy expert and former Deputy Mayor of Shimla