Ministry of Finance

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We Can’t Understand Climate Change Without Understanding Its Economic Costs

Omair Ahmad 04/11/2021

In an important way, the climate crisis is an...

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How the Economic Survey Used Dubious Analysis to Spin India’s COVID Response

Murad Banaji 08/03/2021

The Economic Survey does no justice to efforts that...

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India’s Genome Sequencing Program Is Finally Good To Go – So What’s the Hold Up?

Priyanka Pulla 28/02/2021

India's newly launched programme to widely and rapidly sequence...

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The Folly of Expecting the Union Budget To See India’s Education Catastrophe

Kiran Bhatty 02/02/2021

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman had not a word...

FILE PHOTO: A woman walks past a painting of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi a day before the inauguration of the COVID-19 vaccination drive on a street in Mumbai

Why 137% Increase in Budget Outlay for ‘Health and Wellbeing’ Is Misleading

The Wire Staff 01/02/2021

This figure is the result of clubbing the allocations...

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Budget 2021: Sitharaman Cuts Education Allocation by Rs 6,088 Crore

The Wire Staff 01/02/2021

The Union government has allocated only Rs 54873.66 crore...

India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stands next to Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs Anurag Thakur as she leaves her office to present the federal budget in the parliament in New Delhi

Budget 2021: Sitharaman Allocates 70K Cr for Health, Plus 35K Cr for Vaccines

The Wire Staff 01/02/2021

The government has announced a new healthcare scheme with...