According to a text sentiment analysis, nearly 36.5 per cent of the lines in Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Interim Budget 2024 speech displayed positive sentiments.
Any government would increase the emphasis on social welfare schemes. The votes lie disproportionately in rural areas but the income is disproportionately concentrated in urban areas.
The revised budget estimate for the Union health ministry for 2023-24 is 9.6% lower than the original estimate, reflecting how funds for several schemes were underused by states.
Capital expenditure for next FY is achievable but could be challenging given this year's under-achievement. Moreover, rise of interest payments doesn't bode well for quality of expenditure.
Nirmala Sitharaman’s speech outlined the success of the Modi government & reiterated its focus on four ‘castes’: women, poor, farmers and youth. But there were no big announcements.
The Interim Budget 2024 provides guidance for formulating policies to foster and sustain growth, facilitate inclusive and sustainable development, improve productivity, and generate resources to power investments.
The Interim Budget 2024 offers a neat milestone to compare economic, taxation, and expenditure philosophies of Manmohan Singh and Narendra Modi’s ten-year tenures.
That giveaways under PM Kisan weren't doubled tells us BJP is confident of winning, thinks things like infra will work instead & isn’t willing to suspend fiscal caution in an election year.
Security forces are successfully neutralising top Maoist leaders. The extremists are finally being rooted out through the determined efforts of the Indian government.
Diving into workings of Gurugram fulfilment centre, Abhinav Singh, V-P (Ops) at Amazon India, offers insights into how company manages logistics, in conversation with ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta.
In his new book, CDS emphasises that India secures itself through policy & structure, not a written NSS document. Israel never released a formal NSS, he mentions.
India is better positioned in the world than at any point post-Cold war. We have to decide if global opinion matters to us or not. If it does, we must engage with their media, think tanks, civil society.
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