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PROMISES NOT KEPT, SELLING FALSE DATA — A FARCE CALLED UNION BUDGET

Budgets are supposed to deliver the promises made by the ruling party, address challenges before the economy, and achiev...

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A Budget Sans Kartavya: CFA releases its Budget Analysis for the year 2026-27

Press Release New Delhi | February 5, 2026: A closer analysis of the Union Budget reveals that the public health spendin...

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Kartavya-less Budget

An Analysis of the Union Budget 2026-27 Listening to the Finance Minister’s speech right after reading the Economic Surv...

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📽️ WATCH: Public Lecture by Justice S. Muralidhar on Interrogating the World Bank @ 80

🪙 As the World Bank marks 80 years, Justice S. Muralidhar delivers a critical address examining the institution’s growi...

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How Fishing Communities Are Challenging Port Led Growth in Uttara Kannada

This article is the third in the series ‘The Coastal Course’, co-curated by Centre for Financial Accountability and Delh...

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Barking up the wrong tree : A critique of the misdirected and wasteful push for Carbon Capture in the Budget

Background : The still rising global green house gases emissions (the 2025 global CO2 emissions of an estimated 38.1 bil...

Energy General National Finance Post-Budget Series 2026 Union Budget

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Union Budget 2026–27: Prosperity in Numbers, Poverty in Reality!

If one were to rely on the official data released by the government, India’s economy is claimed to be in a comfortable p...

General National Finance Post-Budget Series 2026 Union Budget

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New UGC rules leads to protests by savarnas | Editorial

Finance Matters | Volume 9, Issue 29, January 30, 2026 Within weeks of the new University Grants Commission (UGC) rules’...

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What Earlier Budgets Say About Job Creation by the Modi Government

The real test for Budget 2026 is not just what headline “job stimulus” the government announces, but whether it actual...

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Why the Union Budget Needs to Bring Course Correction in Banking

The finance ministry needs to acknowledge that relying on NBFC-led credit delivery while banks retreat from small-tick...

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September 16, 2026

Thomas Franco

PROMISES NOT KEPT, SELLING FALSE DATA — A FARCE CALLED UNION BUDGET

Budgets are supposed to deliver the promises made by the ruling party, address challenges before the economy, and achieve the constitutional goals. One of the most important constitutional goals is to bring down inequality and provide equal opportunity to all. When income inequality is increasing, i...

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September 16, 2026

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A Budget Sans Kartavya: CFA releases its Budget Analysis for the year 2026-27

Press Release New Delhi | February 5, 2026: A closer analysis of the Union Budget reveals that the public health spending by the Centre remains at a dismal 0.27% of GDP and the education spending stands at 0.35% of GDP, far below the 6% of GDP commitment under the much celebrated National Education ...

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September 16, 2026

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Kartavya-less Budget

An Analysis of the Union Budget 2026-27 Listening to the Finance Minister’s speech right after reading the Economic Survey felt as if the sound and fury of the Survey signified nothing. The Survey, sans several of the unqualified praise for the state of the economy, had rightly underlined the exigen...

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September 16, 2026

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📽️ WATCH: Public Lecture by Justice S. Muralidhar on Interrogating the World Bank @ 80

🪙 As the World Bank marks 80 years, Justice S. Muralidhar delivers a critical address examining the institution’s growing influence over India’s economic and social policies. With rising external debt, he explains how international financial institutions increasingly shape decisions affecting milli...

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September 16, 2026

Vaishnavi Suresh

How Fishing Communities Are Challenging Port Led Growth in Uttara Kannada

This article is the third in the series ‘The Coastal Course’, co-curated by Centre for Financial Accountability and Delhi Forum, reflecting on 10 years of Sagarmala Programme. The first second and fourth articles are here, here and here. In late February 2025, the district administration of Uttara K...

General Infrastructure Finance The Coastal Course

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September 16, 2026

Soumya Dutta

Barking up the wrong tree : A critique of the misdirected and wasteful push for Carbon Capture in the Budget

Background : The still rising global green house gases emissions (the 2025 global CO2 emissions of an estimated 38.1 billion tons was 1.1% higher than 2024 emissions, which itself was 0.8% higher than 2023 emissions) are driving us towards a serious climate change crisis. An urgent shift of all econ...

Energy General National Finance Post-Budget Series 2026 Union Budget

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September 16, 2026

Devidas Tuljapurakar

Union Budget 2026–27: Prosperity in Numbers, Poverty in Reality!

If one were to rely on the official data released by the government, India’s economy is claimed to be in a comfortable position today on four key parameters—high growth rate, global ranking in Gross Domestic Product (GDP), contained inflation, and a controlled fiscal deficit. In such a situation, it...

General National Finance Post-Budget Series 2026 Union Budget

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January 31, 2026

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New UGC rules leads to protests by savarnas | Editorial

Finance Matters | Volume 9, Issue 29, January 30, 2026 Within weeks of the new University Grants Commission (UGC) rules’ announcement, India’s barely concealed casteism has come out in full swing. The University Grants Commission (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations, 20...

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January 31, 2026

Asmi Sharma

What Earlier Budgets Say About Job Creation by the Modi Government

The real test for Budget 2026 is not just what headline “job stimulus” the government announces, but whether it actually raises the quality of work. Workers mend railway tracks, ahead of the presentation of the Union Budget 2026-27 by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in Prayagraj, Satur...

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January 31, 2026

Thomas Franco

Why the Union Budget Needs to Bring Course Correction in Banking

The finance ministry needs to acknowledge that relying on NBFC-led credit delivery while banks retreat from small-ticket lending is neither equitable nor sustainable.People gather outside a branch of Bank of Baroda as it remains closed in Mirzapur on January 27, 2026. Photo: PTI | The WireFor seve...

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PROMISES NOT KEPT, SELLING FALSE DATA — A FARCE CALLED UNION BUDGET

A Budget Sans Kartavya: CFA releases its Budget Analysis for the year 2026-27

Kartavya-less Budget

📽️ WATCH: Public Lecture by Justice S. Muralidhar on Interrogating the World Bank @ 80

How Fishing Communities Are Challenging Port Led Growth in Uttara Kannada

Barking up the wrong tree : A critique of the misdirected and wasteful push for Carbon Capture in the Budget

Union Budget 2026–27: Prosperity in Numbers, Poverty in Reality!

New UGC rules leads to protests by savarnas | Editorial

What Earlier Budgets Say About Job Creation by the Modi Government

Why the Union Budget Needs to Bring Course Correction in Banking

PROMISES NOT KEPT, SELLING FALSE DATA — A FARCE CALLED UNION BUDGET

A Budget Sans Kartavya: CFA releases its Budget Analysis for the year 2026-27

Kartavya-less Budget

📽️ WATCH: Public Lecture by Justice S. Muralidhar on Interrogating the World Bank @ 80

How Fishing Communities Are Challenging Port Led Growth in Uttara Kannada

Barking up the wrong tree : A critique of the misdirected and wasteful push for Carbon Capture in the Budget

Union Budget 2026–27: Prosperity in Numbers, Poverty in Reality!

New UGC rules leads to protests by savarnas | Editorial

What Earlier Budgets Say About Job Creation by the Modi Government

Why the Union Budget Needs to Bring Course Correction in Banking

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