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India underspends on big-ticket schemes, spends just 41% of allocations in nine monthsGovernment schemes are seeing slow fund utilisation. In the first nine months of the fiscal year, only 40% of the budgeted funds were spent...- Budget 2026: Agri research funding cut raises concern; stakeholders question income gains from high-value cropsCuts in research funding heighten fears that agriculture and rural sectors will face delayed policy focus, say stakeholders.
- Key budget themes fade as middle class steals the limelightFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's budget for FY26 emphasizes tax relief for the middle class and support for agriculture, small busines...
- Union Budget 2023: Key expectations from the markets; investors also eye US Fed on Feb 1On the revenue expenditure front, extending the Free Food distribution to the poor (under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana) till Dec...
- Simple rule to estimate how much you can withdraw from retirement corpus without threat of old age povertyYou should only withdraw whatever your savings earn over and above the inflation rate. Think about this concept carefully. If your savings ...
- The perils of overestimating and underestimating capex projectionsStates have been significantly overestimating CSS receipts. CSSs are typically co-financed by the Centre and the states, and the central gr...
- Indian economy will be back to pre-COVID levels by March 2022: Uday Kotak"If we are seeing some sort of a normalisation on vaccination and calibrated opening between now and September, then by September we should...
- Need to do more to promote awareness: Ayushman Bharat CEO Indu BhushanCEO of Ayushman Bharat-PMJAY, Indu Bhushan speaks to ET about the learnings from delivering the first one crore treatments and the challeng...
- Alphons Kannanthanam’s thoughtless remark on petrol price reveals the mindset: Our rulers needn’t care what we thinkTaking a leaf out of the Marxists’ book, Kannanthanam would persuade us that only the well-heeled are affected by oil prices: let them pay ...
- A look at the abuse of pregnant women by health workersObstetric violence, the abuse of pregnant women by health workers, is shockingly common in the Indian medical system though it is rarely ta...
- Spending on subsidies surged, education and health lagged during 10 years of UPAA large part of funds meant for new programmes may end up as "savings" as FM is going to announce steep cuts to stay within fiscal deficit ...
- Finance Minister P Chidambaram faces resistance from Plan panel on spending cutsThe burden of fiscal consolidation has largely fallen on plan expenditure, which includes spending on welfare schemes such as NREGA.
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