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Infrastructure Risk Guarantee Fund: De-Risking Finance Capital

The Union Budget 2026–27 introduced an Infrastructure Risk Guarantee Fund (IRGF), announced by Finance Minister Nirmala ...

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CFA flags ‘welfare retreat’ in Union Budget 2026–27, alleges corporate bias

The advocacy group Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) has sharply criticised the Union Budget 2026–27, calling it...

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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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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...

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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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Budget Expectations: Need to Escape Confused Policy Making

The only option for India is to reduce dependence on the external markets and boost internal markets via income suppor...

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September 16, 2026

Amitanshu Verma

Infrastructure Risk Guarantee Fund: De-Risking Finance Capital

The Union Budget 2026–27 introduced an Infrastructure Risk Guarantee Fund (IRGF), announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as a mechanism to support infrastructure projects during the design and construction phases. The budget has allocated ₹1,000 crore towards this initiative.This allocatio...

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September 16, 2026

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CFA flags ‘welfare retreat’ in Union Budget 2026–27, alleges corporate bias

The advocacy group Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) has sharply criticised the Union Budget 2026–27, calling it a “budget sans kartavya” that weakens public welfare while favouring private corporations, even as inequality, climate risks and social distress deepen across the country. In its ...

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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

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...

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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...

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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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January 31, 2026

Arun Kumar

Budget Expectations: Need to Escape Confused Policy Making

The only option for India is to reduce dependence on the external markets and boost internal markets via income support to the marginalised which can more than make up for the loss of external markets. A budget is expected to flag the issues both currently faced by the economy and likely to emerge...

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Budget2026

Infrastructure Risk Guarantee Fund: De-Risking Finance Capital

CFA flags ‘welfare retreat’ in Union Budget 2026–27, alleges corporate bias

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

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!

What Earlier Budgets Say About Job Creation by the Modi Government

Why the Union Budget Needs to Bring Course Correction in Banking

Budget Expectations: Need to Escape Confused Policy Making

Infrastructure Risk Guarantee Fund: De-Risking Finance Capital

CFA flags ‘welfare retreat’ in Union Budget 2026–27, alleges corporate bias

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

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!

What Earlier Budgets Say About Job Creation by the Modi Government

Why the Union Budget Needs to Bring Course Correction in Banking

Budget Expectations: Need to Escape Confused Policy Making

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