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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The price of reform
India's return to the phase of higher indirect tax revenues will impose disproportionately larger burdens on the poorer sections. In a Budget speech that was tiresome to the point of being boring and sought
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Losing direction
The Budget provides proof of the United Progressive Alliance government having forgotten the importance of its own “flagship schemes”. BUDGET 2012-13 provides conclusive proof that the United Progressive
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Food Security Bill May See Some Changes
Parliamentary committee is likely to go for universalising distribution of grains to cover wider range of population The much-awaited Food Security Bill, which is being vetted by Parliamentary Standing
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RBI objects to rise in power subsidies to farmers in state
Gandhinagar: The Reserve Bank of India in its latest report, ‘State Finances: A Study of Budgets of 2011-12’, has identified Gujarat as one of the states where power sector reforms, despite being initiated early, have failed to create the “desired impact” on the financial position of the state power utilities (SPUs). The report says, “Subsidies to SPUs/State Electricity Boards (SEBs) have been rising over the years for Gujarat and Karnataka, which had unbundled utilities”, calling it a “growing area of concern.”
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State to table Lokayukta Bill
Notwithstanding its virtual rejection by Team Anna, the Himachal Pradesh Lokayukta Bill is likely to be tabled in the state Assembly within a day or two after the suggestions from the Lokayukta are received.
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‘We’ll Have Direct Subsidies’
FM talks about his toughest budget yet, cost of the food security Bill and lots more Pranab Mukherjee is not a man easily provoked. With eight budgets behind him, the 77-year-old finance minister has
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Panel picks holes in MGNREGA implementation
Jammu, March 30: While the budget from MGNREGA scheme witnesses a threefold increase in the next financial year, the Committee on Estimates, comprising members of both Assembly and Council, has observed
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Panchayat Budget: Power from garbage
KOCHI: Ernakulam District Panchayat vice-president Bindu George presented a Rs 50-crore surplus budget for 2012-13 to the 26-member council on Thursday. The budget envisages a total income of Rs 920 crore and an expenditure of Rs 870 crore.
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Tata Motors hikes commercial vehicle prices
After increasing prices of its passenger cars following hike in excise duty in the Union Budget 2012-13, Tata Motors, on Thursday, said its entire range of commercial vehicles have also become dearer by up to Rs.60,000. “We have hiked the prices of our commercial vehicles by 2-5 per cent considering hikes in excise duty on vehicles and chassis. This has been done with effect from March 17 (2012),” Tata Motors President (Commercial Vehicle Business Unit) Ravi Pisharody told journalists at the Defence Expo here.
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Rs.150 crore for waste treatment plant
The United Democratic Front-led district panchayat has passed a surplus budget of Rs.50.06 crore on Thursday, which the four-member opposition Left Democratic Front dispelled as a dream budget cut off from reality. In her second straight budget, vice-president Bindu George envisaged an income of Rs.920.17 crore against an expenditure of Rs.870.11 crore. The budget proposes a waste treatment plant for generating power on 30 cents of land at an estimated cost of Rs.150 crore.