Frontline’s latest issue has a comprehensive package of five stories on the budget, each focusing on a particular aspect. @sritara reckons this is the most socially disruptive and divisive budget in the last three decades frontline.thehindu.com/economy/union-…
@DasguptaZico argues that the Budget provides neither an impetus to investment and growth nor provides income support to the worst-hit in the pandemic frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/a-b…
@ramakumarr argues that the budget, coming as it does in the midst of unprecedented protests by peasants, mocks them and threatens to squeeze their incomes even more
@SurbhiKesar and rahullahoti argue that the Budget, instead of correcting the massive redistribution of wealth that has happened in th wake of the pandemic, threatens to further worsen income and wealth disparities
Veteran Railways worker-organiser R. Elangovan shines the light on the budget’s focus on the railways, and finds shocking negligence – of its accounts as well as its infrastructure, which has a bearing on the national economy.
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