High Time To Examine The State Government Budgets


BANGALORE: The budget 2015 has remained under speculations regarding many policies, laws and deductions, until Finmin Arun Jaitley revealed the budget. The budget was fair for some of the expectations made by the tax payers, but few of the reforms and changes that were made were like ruining away the hopes of the tax payers.

Some of the experts said that the budget leans in favor of corporate and many opine that it was a beneficiary for the common man as well. The budget rightly shunned populism and focused on growth essentials.

But the state government budgets have their own story to reveal. Starting from the Maharashtra budget where government abolished LBT, extended tax exemption on rice, wheat. The Jammu & Kashmir government unveiled 46, 473 crore budget packed with a slew of schemes for farmers, traders, women and employees while stamping out "plan and non-plan classification".

According to Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, an MLA and state Secretary CPI(M), "This budget has nothing significant to offer and instead has furthered desperation and disappointment for different sections of society, be it the unemployed educated youth, people associated with business, agriculture, horticulture, handicrafts, causal labourers, daily wagers, Anganwari workers and helpers, ASHAs, contractuals, SPOs, old aged, handicapped, Nambardars and Chowkidars, Chopans, Gujjar and Bakerwal community," reports PTI.

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