Budget 2018: The only major announcement is reduction of women employees’ PF contribution to 8% for first three years of their employment against existing rate of 12% or 10% with no change in employers’ contribution.
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Political Messaging Masks Budget 2018’s Actual Delivery in the Social Sector
Even as schemes have received minimal allocations, this budget signals an important shift in the political narrative. Gone is the focus on jobs, skills, aspirations and empowerment.
Budget 2018: National Health Mission- The institutional barrier
Even as the new National Health Policy of 2017 urges a widening of the service net, can outcomes improve without reform of underlying institutional shortcomings?
Budget 2018 and education: Restoring the balance
Can India realize its demographic potential in the absence of a far-sighted policy for education as a whole?
Budget 2018: Stumbling towards sustainable sanitation
The challenge will be in ensuring that open defecation-free villages and cities are truly ODF, but more crucially that they remain so.
Budget 2018 view: ‘Patient’ approach to better health
Budget 2018 view: ‘Patient’ approach to better health
The vicious cycle of unspent balances – Part 2
Why is the money allocated to social sector schemes left unspent.
The vicious cycle of unspent balances – Part 1
Why is the money allocated to social sector schemes left unspent.
Did Union Budget – 2016 allocate more for rural India and the social sector? Not really
A closer look at budgetary numbers highlights why Indian budgets need to be more transparent.
Union Budget 2017 was a status quo budget for the social sector
There were no surprises—no helicopter drop of money into Jan-Dhan accounts, no move to dismantle ongoing welfare schemes in favour of a universal basic income (UBI). Far from being the populist, game-changing budget that many had expected, Union finance minister Arun Jaitley presented a sombre, status quo budget which, apart from some tinkering with allocations, offers no vision and agenda for social policy, especially when it comes to core sectors like health and education.