Bihar CM Nitish Kumar said the \"positive\" budget is in the interest of the common man and farmers, while Thackeray and Kejriwal alleged the budget gives \"step-motherly\" treatment to Maharashtra and Delhi

Budget 2020: The government has allocated Rs 61,500 crore for MGNREGA scheme, which is lower than last year's revised estimates of Rs 71,002 crore by 13.4 per cent

Budget 2020: In today's speech, the FM broke her own record and delivered the longest Union Budget speech, which was 159 minutes long

National Girl Child Day 2020: Here are a few government schemes such as Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana, Beti Bachao Beti Padhao that are specifically aimed at girl child. Here's for more

The Budget Trails by Tata Trusts and Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA) is the result of a two-year project that analyses bottlenecks in fund utilisation at district level across 10 development schemes

Part II of this two-part article looks at some of the solutions that present themselves and address the pressing concerns of raising income and demand - that include raising minimum wages, expanding the job guarantee scheme, higher government investment in infrastructure etc. both as short-run and long-run measures

Will the Narendra Modi government announce a populist Union Budget to arrest the economic slowdown? Will Budget 2020 offer tax sops and income tax relaxation to stimulate demand? Unlikely, says Bibek Debroy, Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM)

NITI Aayog is working on a real-time dashboard for all ministries, especially infrastructure ministries, to evaluate the performance of every scheme under each ministry, says Rajiv Kumar

Abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A might excite investors, but for real investments to come in, Jammu and Kashmir regions will need major infrastructure buildup