Budget 2022 focus on transportation and communication infrastructure is justified, but it failed to enhance school education infrastructure and to step up skilling efforts. Read more »
Jal Jeevan Mission promises to provide fresh tap water to every household in the country, but budget allocations did not match the scope of such an ambitious scheme. Read more »
Budget 2022 does not have a public health focus though it came in the midst of a raging global pandemic. Read more »
Budget 2022 has allocated Rs 2,042 crore for allocation under RUSA , but most of this may remain unspent. Read more »
While continuing with supply side incentives, Budget 2022 does pretty little to address the issues of low aggregate demand and unemployment. Read more »
Budget 2022 is the first truly BJP Budget in the sense that it has broken away from the welfarism of the previous Congress governments. Read more »
Budget 2022 lays a great emphasis on public spending and incentivises private investment through various innovative approaches of revenue generation. Read more »
Budget 2022 is wholly relevant to the new India which is agile, resilient, confident and self-reliant. Read more »
Budget 2022 ignores the risk from a likely rise in global crude prices, monetary tightening by the Federal Reserve and the totally unpredictable trajectory of Covid-19. Read more »
Budget 2022 doesn’t offer any change in income tax rates or slabs for individual taxpayers, but HNIs will benefit from the cut in surcharge on long-term capital gains tax to 15%. Read more »