Interim Budget 2024: Balancing Schemes, Fiscal Discipline and Rural Priorities
The Interim Budget shows this government lays more emphasis on showering schemes on people.
The Interim Budget shows this government lays more emphasis on showering schemes on people.
The Interim Budget has served as a platform to highlight the outgoing government's achievements and present a glorious vision for its next term. Nirmala Sitharaman did not disappoint on either count.
This year's budget was an election speech by the Finance Minister, praising her government, having done marvelous achievements in various walks of life by unabashedly using unsubstantiated data and falsehoods.
The K-shaped pattern of growth within the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) pointed to by critics has riled officialdom and its supporters because it implies not only growing inequality but an overestimation of GDP and its growth.
In its broadest conception, it would require justice for all to enable a civilized existence. Equity among genders, castes, and communities would have to be created.
Moti Mahal and Daryaganj, two restaurant chains in India, are embroiled in a dispute over the invention of butter chicken and dal makhani.