TopicBudget 2020

Topic: Budget 2020

To meet fiscal deficit target, Sitharaman’s Budget leaves out some expenditure

Remya Nair - February 13, 2020

Govt has provided Rs 30,000 cr as against Rs 74,340 cr proposed by 15th finance commission, towards revenue deficit grants to states & has made no allocation for bank recapitalisation.

PM Modi says India won’t waste time now, budget will help achieve $5 trillion target

PTI - February 12, 2020

Noting that only 2,200 people in the country had declared earnings of Rs 1 crore per annum, PM Modi called on citizens to honestly pay their dues to ensure India's development.

AAP victory trumps hyper-nationalism, says Express & governance new nationalism, says TOI

Unnati Sharma - February 12, 2020

Santosh Desai, Satish Deshpande, Suhas Palshikar on AAP's landslide victory in Delhi and Shankar Acharya, Nirvikar Singh on Budget 2020.

This UP town sells IAS-IPS dream to lakhs without caring for the reality of a lack of jobs

ThePrint Team - February 8, 2020

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Jagran calls for coronavirus antidote, Bhaskar criticises ‘bitter’ Delhi election campaigns

Renu Agal - February 8, 2020

A weekend round up of editorial comment in leading Hindi newspapers on the most topical issues of the day.

Modi hasn’t done so badly on the economy. But more needs to be done on many fronts

TN Ninan - February 8, 2020

Modi & his Cabinet need to get over their hostility to criticism, and frontally address the jobs problem as it is central to tackling the growing inequality.

RBI sticks to script, holds rates due to inflation and fiscal deficit

Remya Nair - February 6, 2020

RBI projects growth for 2020-21 at 6%. Repo rate retained at 5.15% and reverse repo rate at 4.9%.

India’s defence forces can’t wait for Modi’s $5-trillion economy dream. Slowdown is hurting

Lt Gen H S Panag (retd) - February 6, 2020

Armed forces’ modernisation is languishing for two decades. We need to enhance the defence budget to a sustained rate of 3-4 per cent of the GDP.

Unlike India, China built its economy & military before calling itself a world power

Aparna Pande - February 6, 2020

Ever since PM Modi came to office, his government has prioritised social reengineering over economic growth. Look where that led us.

Modi govt has tried to stimulate economy without creating future crisis: Expenditure Secy

Remya Nair - February 5, 2020

Speaking to ThePrint, Expenditure Secretary T.V. Somanathan says borrowings through extra-budgetary resources have increased but Modi govt has been transparent in disclosing it.

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