India’s school students are facing a learning crisis. Budget 2021 does nothing to solve that

A 6.1% drop allocations and a lack of focus on learning outcomes keeps the country on the path of an entire generation having unequal opportunities.

Vishal Vasanthakumar

· Feb 04, 2021 · 07:30 am

Budget for child and maternal nutrition schemes shrinks – despite concerns over rising hunger

Right to Food activists express concern about cuts to anganwadi services, mid-day meals and maternity benefit programmes during a pandemic.

Aarefa Johari

· Feb 02, 2021 · 05:00 pm

Sitharaman’s Budget 2021 is being praised for its honesty. Why is that being considered ‘brave’?

Having been criticised by analysts and the CAG, the government is finally coming clean on the numbers.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Feb 02, 2021 · 09:29 am

Finance ministry clarifies it will present an interim budget, not full budget, on February 1

Media reports suggesting that the Centre intends to present a full budget had sparked condemnation by the Opposition last week.

Scroll Staff

· Jan 30, 2019 · 02:22 pm

Modi’s 2019 budget: What it can do about India’s jobs crisis, but probably won’t do

Instead of acknowledging the dire situation, the government and its officials appear to be in a state of denial.

Jayati Ghosh, qz.com

· Jan 30, 2019 · 01:30 pm

Data analysis: Agriculture spending doubled during Modi’s term, but farmers are still in distress

With NDA promising to double farm incomes by 2022, the upcoming budget’s priorities should be more money and more research for agriculture, experts said.

Shreehari Paliath, IndiaSpend.com

· Jan 28, 2019 · 09:30 pm

Ancient Greece tells us how engaging ordinary citizens in public finance results in better budgets

Politicians assume ordinary people cannot face the financial truth. But involving voters in public finance debates helps to build consensus for reform.

Lyn Carson, The Conversation

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David M. Pritchard, The Conversation

· Feb 21, 2018 · 11:30 pm

Government is likely to miss its fiscal deficit target for this year (but you may never know)

Trust finance ministry mandarins to juggle the numbers and finally present a figure not much higher than the target of 3.2% of GDP.

A K Bhattacharya, business-standard.com

· Jan 07, 2018 · 08:30 pm