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Nirmala Sitharaman set a record by presenting the Union Budget seven times Written by  Zaif khan   Budget in this term is read out in 88 minutes by finance minister of India, in the budget priorities were given to easing the corporates taxes, agriculture productivity, skilling and employment. The proposed expenditure for the financial year is Rs 48,20,512 crore. Out of this total, revenue expenditure is projected to be Rs45,03,097 crore, reflecting a 1.07% increase from the revised estimates of 2023-24.   The expenditure proposals for different departments/Ministries:- Agriculture 1.52lakh crore provision is provided to this sector by addressing demand for automobiles in rural market. Government will release new 109 high yielding & climate resilient seeds for horticulture crops. Digital public infrastructure for agriculture sector is also promised. Special focus will be given to shrimp farming, vegetable production & enhancing supply chain.    ...

Youth employment, education and skills in India written by  Zaif khan In the middle of this year surging brain drain and soaring unemployment is the highlighted headings of the Indian employment report third series published by IHD. The report is on the basis of 2000 to 2022 national sample survey & Periodic labor force survey data.   Key Findings: Dreadful employment conditions for youth in India: Consistently decreasing/stagnant wages with no improvement in employment rate resulted increase in workforce participation and unpaid family work among youth. Indian youth accounted for 83% unemployed workforce. Enrollment in higher education of youngsters is doubled from 35.2% in 2000 to 65.7% in 2022.       Between 2000 and 2019 the underemployment increased among educated youth facing joblessness at high level. Too many educated youth rushing for few government jobs as in june 2022 1.7 million people applied for 3400 jobs of minimum qualification...

Social accountability in India written by Zaif khan One of the most relevant subject for the country is governance, from ancient period the attempts to explore contemporary ways of governance is made by powerful managers of the country. This effort of defining and redefining the relation of ruler and ruled has consistently faced the issue of accountability for the accurately functioning of the policies. As democracy is most widely acceptable delegative the answerable public officials is also one of the important aspect of it. Contrary to past scenario, current times has information technology to make people's participation in governance not limited to the elections. Approach to good governance initiative in administrative and democratic system is by introducing social accountability.       Public vigilance drive conducted in a campaign mode to measure accountability of government projects, laws and policies by civil society organizations (CSOs) is officially known as...

Collation politics recouped in 2024 election; changed the scenario for Modi government? Worlds biggest democratic plenum is revised to unfold new chapters   written by  Zaif khan In the present time, the dominant player of Indian politics, BJP has loosened its resilience in the last general election after facing a crisis-ridden opposition and diminishing effect of the Congress legacy. In a decade of the saffron party's reign, the opposition found itself in crisis due to the changed political rhythm of the country.  Before 2014, for two decades, India had only seen coalition governments in power, but Hindu nationalism emerged as the strongest pillar to gain voter's confidence.  Exit polls had also made strong claims over the absolute majority to the BJP party in this election, as it gained a clear mandate in the last three state elections. Though they neglected the unsatisfied incumbency wave in different parts of the country due to consistently rising unemployme...