Budget 2017

Reading between the lines: Forget the rhetoric, this is no Budget for India's poor

India's social-sector spending remains woefully low and despite claims of being a pro-farmer Budget, the effective allocations are nearly the same as last year.

Harsh Mander
· Feb 11, 2017 · 10:30 am
Budget fine print: A Rs 2-crore home in Mumbai could qualify for affordable housing subsidies

By defining affordable housing by size rather than cost, has the government defeated the very purpose of the measure?

Gurbir Singh
· Feb 09, 2017 · 08:00 am
In budget 2017, Arun Jaitley gave flailing public health programmes little hope

The finance minister gave the health ministry Rs 10,000 crores more this year, but that is still less than health allocation in 2011.

Indranil Mukhopadhyay
· Feb 06, 2017 · 02:30 pm

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