“In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.” J.M Keynes Union Budget 2022-23 was...
Budget 2022-23 has to be framed under the shadow of three sets of pressing issues. One relates to the devastating economic impact of Covid-19, the second to restoring growth and putting the economy on a higher growth trajectory and...
Source: Assam Tribune, 20 August 2021
Source: Assam Tribune, 31 July 2021
The vaccination drive has so far been chaotic. Centre and States must take urgent measures to step it up A retired JNU professor who could not get a hospital bed or an oxygen concentrator in Delhi died of Covid-19...
The most noteworthy job that the Assam Government has done is the non-discriminatory extension of health services in the polarized milieu in contrast to the general mood unleashed by the actions of the Central Government. It is certainly in...
More funds could have been allocated to MGNREGA and PM Garib Kalyan Yojana to spur short-term demand Budget 2021-22, presented in the backdrop of Covid-19, has three major challenges: Containment of the pandemic; Budget 2021-22, presented in the backdrop...
The current tussle between the Centre and States on the issue of GST compensation could be briefly put as follows: While bringing into operation the GST regime, there has been a statutory commitment that the Central Government would compensate...
Given it will be implemented in just 116 districts of six states, it is discriminatory in the sense that it leaves out states like Chhattisgarh and West Bengal. The Covid-19 lockdown left 45-60 million migrant labourers in the lurch...
The steps preferred by the government will face implementation challenges and do not address adequately the woes of migrant workers in a short- and longer-term perspective The lockdown, imposed to control the outbreak of Covid-19, has impacted the lives...