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Will Budget 2022 Boost Health And Education Amid A Pandemic? Is The Budget People Friendly Or Conservative?

MNREGS Allocation Unchanged Despite Elevated Work Demand, Rural Housing Yet To Pick Up Pace

The programme has perennially been short of funds, with expenditure overwhelming the funds available. The pending liabilities in terms of overdue wages have been rising in the past few years

One Nation, Many Burdens

The GST system of indirect taxation completes five years in 2022, and it already seems to have caused cracks in the idea of fiscal federalism. States feel shortchanged at losing revenue year after year. Was it worth surrendering their taxation powers to a GST Council that tends to agree with the Centre?

For NEP to Work, Education Needs a Larger Budget

India’s education sector, the hardest-hit by pandemic, is in desperate need of funds

Where Are All The Women In Governance And Public Finance?

For decades, women’s heart attacks have been rampantly undiagnosed because some physicians are unaware that symptoms can manifest differently in the sexes. Similarly, Invisible Women by Caroline Perez highlights the extent to which women have been overlooked – be it in policy-making, developing government programmes, or designing consumer products.

‘No Matter How Centralising Modi Is, He Will Need States’: Yamini Aiyar on Federalism After 2014

The president and chief executive of Centre for Policy Research on the differences between accounting and accountability in the Indian state.

Precarious States

States are desperately attempting never-tried-before measures to stay afloat

How Can Indians Secure ‘Direct’ Welfare in a Pandemic?

It might be too early to treat direct benefit transfers as a one-size-fits-all policy solution given the difficulties some Indians have in accessing cash.