Budgeting for agriculture and food
The Union Budget 2023-24 was presented against the backdrop of some critical geopolitical developments and was the last full budget before the next general elections. Signicantly, 2023 is also the year
Budget
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Rs 419 cr deficit Meghalaya Budget presented
Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma today presented a deficit budget of Rs 419 crore for 2011-12 and proposed tax reforms to bridge the problematic non-plan gap associated with the State
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55 paise a day is TN budget for anganwadi kids meal
Chennai: Fifty paise is the lowest legal tender in the country. Add to that five paise, and you get the daily allocation for food for an underprivileged child in an anganwadi. Tamil Nadu ranks first in implementing the integrated child development scheme (ICDS), but 55 paise is all thats given towards purchase of vegetables, fuel and condiments per child a day in an anganwadi in the state.
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Govt focuses on market linkages for farmers to boost pulses yield
Plans to set up 150 farmer-producer organisations in 11 states. The government is planning to provide market linkages for farmers growing pulses as part of a programme announced in the Budget to improve their production, as scarcity of this essential item was one of the major contributors to food inflation a few years back.
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Indian economy in 2011: Dualism in policy formulation
<p> Our policymakers face a dilemma: should we have adequate food and nutrition for all or should we have world-class airport terminals? In an ideal world, one could possibly have them both. But if there are limited resources and there is a question of setting priorities, then surely it should be possible to hold the view that the former should get precedence.
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Malnutrition and ICDS
<p>Pronouncements about the ICDS scheme have to be juxtaposed against the grim reality of malnutrition. (Editorial)</p>
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MP manages budget well: Study
Madhya Pradesh stands second after Gujarat for better management of State budget and maintaining up-to-date information after Gujarat state. The fact came to light in a study report conducted by an Independent institute 'Sanket'.
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Unrealistic Solutions To Growing Problems
With food inflation hovering in the double digit bracket for most part of 2010-11 and the aam aadmi up in arms, all hopes were pinned on the Union Budget 2011-12 for giving a new fillip to the farm sector. But the budget has disappointed most, in spite of finance minister Pranab Mukherjee allocating Rs 14,744 crore for agriculture.
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How To Add Up A Zero Sum
A seasoned politician, equally at ease with economic and political matters of state, Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has sent out feelgood signals while charting an opaque course of action in a zero-sum budget. The politics is easily explained: four states are set to go to polls within three months.
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Tripura Budget presented
AGARTALA, March 10