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The corporation budget of the AAP administration is ready - The leader of the House handed over the copy to the Secretary - Focused on infrastructure and cleanliness.
The Union Territory of Delhi is allocated Rs 1,168 crore in the 2024-25 interim Budget, the same as in 2023-24, with the AAP government accusing the Centre of “step-motherly” treatment. (Rs 1,168 crore under the revenue head and Rs 0.01 crore under the capital head.)
“Delhi has a share of Rs 15,000 crore in central taxes but it has only been allocated Rs 1,100 crore by the Centre. Like every time, we have been given step-motherly treatment. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has not been given a single penny,” : Atishi
“The government has provided central assistance of Rs 15,000 crore to Rs 16,000 crore to urban local bodies but no allocations has been made for the MCD. They do not have money for the Delhi government or the MCD,” : Atishi
https://www.millenniumpost.in/delhi/city-gets-rs-1168-cr-in-budget-550471?infinitescroll=1
"Delhi Police allocated Rs 11,397 cr, decrease of 4.70% from previous fiscal year" (534.34 less.)
Jharkhand High Court Adjourns Hearing Of Hemant Soren's Petition Against ED Arrest Till Tomorrow.
https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/jharkhand-high-court/jharkhand-high-court-adjourns-hearing-of-hemant-sorens-petition-against-ed-arrest-till-tomorrow-248183Punjab Government released Rs. 46.89 crore for honorarium of Anganwadi workers and helpers.
https://www.punjabnewsexpress.com/punjab/news/punjab-government-released-rs-4689-crore-for-honorarium-of-anganwadi-workers-and-helpers-238568The announcement in the Interim Budget 2024 of providing rooftop solar power generation to one crore households has come as a response to multiple guarantees of free power by different political parties in different States, including in Delhi and Punjab by the Aam Aadmi Party.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/analysis-govt-confident-of-return-nirmala-sitharamans-interim-budget-takes-on-the-question-of-free-electricity-politics-with-solar-panels/article67800027.eceThe Aam Aadmi Party in Goa will respect whatever decision the INDIA alliance takes on candidates to be fielded from both Lok Sabha
https://goemkarponn.com/will-respect-india-blocs-decision-on-candidates-for-goa-lok-sabha-seats-aap/Delhi HC refuses to stay ED summons to AAP leader Amanatullah Khan
https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/delhi-hc-ed-summons-aap-leader-amanatullah-khan-money-laundering-probe-9138834/Interim Union Budget Follows Tradition of Modi Government’s Apathy Towards Most Vulnerable
https://thewire.in/economy/interim-union-budget-follows-tradition-of-modi-governments-apathy-towards-most-vulnerableRajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh has sought interim bail from February 4 to 10 from the court to attend the Parliament session.
https://www.etvbharat.com/hi/!state/sanjay-singh-sought-interim-bail-from-court-to-participate-in-parliament-proceedings-dls24020104530चंडीगढ़: आम आदमी पार्टी के पार्षद कुलदीप कुमार ने चुनाव परिणाम पर तत्काल रोक लगाने से पंजाब और हरियाणा हाई कोर्ट के इनकार के खिलाफ सुप्रीम कोर्ट का रुख किया है.
AAP councillor Kuldeep Kumar has filed the Special Leave Petition aggrieved by the decision of the High Court to list his petition after three weeks without granting an immediate stay of the results.
https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme-court-248180CM Mann distributes appointment letters to 518 youths, says 'recommendation culture is over from now on'.
https://dainiksaveratimes.com/punjab/cm-mann-distributed-appointment-letters-to-518-youth-said-from-now-onwards-the-culture-of-recommendation-is-over/AAP MLA Chaitar Vasava comes out of jail after 50 days.
https://zeenews.india.com/gujarati/videos/assault-extortion-case-aap-mla-from-dediapada-chaitar-vasava-released-from-jail-after-50-days-of-arrest-322364Delhi government received over 1,40,155 calls last year under its doorstep delivery scheme of which 80,582, or around 57%, were transferred to the departments concerned. The rest were discarded for lack of response from the applicants.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/delhi-governments-doorstep-delivery-scheme-14l-calls-in-2023/articleshow/107307645.cmsIn a significant development, irrigation water has finally reached 548 acres of Janasar village, located at the tail end of Fazilka district, after around four decades.
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/after-four-decades-irrigation-water-reaches-janasar-village-in-fazilka-586155The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has initiated the development of a funeral complex in Rohini that will cater to Hindus, Muslims, and Christians — the Capital’s first integrated facility for the last rites of three major religions.
How the military fell in line with Modi’s political project; The Indian Army’s torture and murder of civilians in a restive Jammu; Mohan Yadav’s rise from obscurity; What Modi’s Ram Rajya looks like; and more.
https://caravanmagazine.in/security/military-modi-political-projectThe Uttar Pradesh Police arrested four people, including the Moradabad district president of Bajrang Dal, for allegedly slaughtering cows to implicate a Muslim man in a false case and conspiring against the police, officials said.
Analysing the rising gap in incomes
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/analysing-the-rising-gap-in-incomes/article67770234.eceIgnoring an agricultural sector in distress
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/ignoring-an-agricultural-sector-in-distress/article67801980.eceGovernment to withdraw certain long-pending, un-reconciled direct tax demands.
https://www.thehindu.com/business/budget/budget-2024-government-to-withdraw-certain-long-pending-un-reconciled-direct-tax-demands/article67801011.eceBudget for Census slashed, population count may not take place in first quarter
https://www.thehindu.com/business/budget/marginal-increase-in-allocation-for-home-ministry/article67800961.eceGovt to come out with White Paper on mismanagement of economy prior to 2014, says Sitharaman
https://www.thehindu.com/business/budget/govt-to-come-out-with-white-paper-on-mismanagement-of-economy-prior-to-2014/article67800081.eceBudget breakdown: Which sectors gained and lost in the Interim Budget | Data
https://www.thehindu.com/business/budget/budget-breakdown-which-sectors-gained-and-lost-in-the-interim-budget-data/article67801197.eceBudget 2024: PM Poshan, Samagra Shiksha allocations much lower than pre-pandemic years | Data
https://www.thehindu.com/data/budget-2024-pm-poshan-samagra-shiksha-allocations-much-lower-than-pre-pandemic-years-data/article67800661.eceInterim Budget 2024: Spending on IITs and IIMs declines as a share of total Budget | Data
https://www.thehindu.com/data/budget-2024-spending-on-iits-and-iims-declines-as-a-share-of-total-budget-data/article67800177.eceBudget 2024: Spending on rural development increases marginally, but not all schemes benefit | Data
https://www.thehindu.com/data/budget-2024-spending-on-rural-development-increases-but-not-all-schemes-benefit-data/article67800394.eceMost teens use social media, but lack skills to protect themselves | Data
https://www.thehindu.com/data/most-teens-use-social-media-but-lack-skills-to-protect-themselves-data/article67796447.eceInterim Budget: Concerns over GDP, spending cuts; fiscal deficit is bright spot
Parting shot: White paper on economy under UPA
https://indianexpress.com/article/business/budget/parting-shot-white-paper-on-economy-under-upa-9139856/Gyanvapi: Puja starts in cellar, Supreme Court sends mosque panel to Allahabad HC
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/gyanvapi-puja-starts-in-cellar-supreme-court-sends-mosque-panel-to-allahabad-hc-9139855/Gory video leads Manipur family to a son who went missing in May
Teen gangraped in Gwalior while parents held at gunpoint: Police
Ashok Gulati and Purvi Thangaraj write: The Interim Budget 2024 neglects the farm sector
Indian military gets meagre hike of 6.17% in modernisation budget
Budget 2024: Rs 1 lakh crore corpus to incentivise R&D in private sector
Centre to follow a ‘calibrated’ approach to divestments in FY25
China's PLA Imposes Restrictions on Where Tribal People Can Graze Livestock Herdsmen involved in the Jan 2 clash with the PLA have been reportedly ordered by PLA soldiers to keep their livestock away from some parts of #KakjungValley.
https://thewire.in/uncategorised/ladakh-chinas-pla-imposes-restrictions-on-where-tribal-people-can-graze-livestock#TamilNadu IRS Officer Who Complained to President Against Nirmala Sitharaman Suspended B. Balamurugan had accused the Union finance minister of turning the Enforcement Directorate into an arm of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
https://thewire.in/government/tamil-nadu-irs-officer-who-complained-to-president-against-nirmala-sitharaman-transferred62% of respondents say that their expenditure has gone up while their income has decreased or remained the same.
India's interim Budget details on India's grants & loans to foreign govts (Revised Budget for 2023-24, in crore)
Afghanistan: 220
Bangladesh: 130
Bhutan: 2398.97
Nepal: 650
Maldives: 770.90
Mongolia: 5
Mauritius: 330
Seychelles: 9.91
Myanmar: 370
Chabahar: 100
Allocation in current FY More info onFY 2023-24: Budget Estimates: Rs 400 Cr Revised Budget Estimates(RBS): Rs 770.90 Cr Up: Rs 370.9 Cr
India's $3.99 Bn Drone Deal with US: Putting in perspective
-IMF's bailout to Pakistan: $3 bn
-Maldives Budget for 2024: $3.2bn
-India's assistance to Sri Lanka: $4bn
-Bhutan's 12th 5 year plan: $3.72 bnGovt's housing promise only ‘covers wait list’: A large number of unidentified families to be left out, say activists The announcement unwittingly belies Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s old promise of 'housing for all' by 2022
https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/governments-housing-promise-only-covers-wait-list-a-large-number-of-unidentified-families-to-be-left-out-say-activists/cid/1997738Finance Minister budget speech.
Finance Minister in her #BudgetSpeech: "Our development philosophy covered all elements of inclusivity, namely, social inclusivity through coverage of all strata of the society......."
Minority Affairs Ministry finds an innovative way to avoid giving #data in response to Qs raised in #Parliament. It shares link of Home Page of Ministry's website and asks MPs to dig through that to find the data they need.
Finance Minister in her #BudgetSpeech: "Our Government has provided transparent, accountable, people-centric and prompt trust-based administration with 8 ‘citizen-first’ and ‘minimum government, maximum governance’ approach." (quoted verbatim)
As #ironical as it sounds, Govt cleverly avoids providing information in response to a Q on Right to Information (#RTI). First it says that data on appeals pending with State Info Commission is with them (obviously!). Govt was expected to source it, collate and provide it to MP.
Finance Minister in her #BudgetSpeech: "Strengthening of the financial sector has helped in making savings, credit and investments more efficient." (quoted verbatim)
Public sector banks managed to recover only 1.61 lakh crore (approx 15.5%) of the 10.42 lakh crore loans written off since 2014-15: Govt in #LokSabha Q No. 1205 asked today
Finance Minister in her #BudgetSpeech: "Previously, social justice was mostly a political slogan. For our Government, social justice is an effective and necessary governance model." (quoted verbatim)
Govt does not maintain data on whether the people who have died while cleaning septic tanks are overwhelmingly from Dalit / ST / Minority communities. It does, however, keep count of such deaths and provide compensation in such cases. In last 5 years, 58 such deaths have been reported from Gujarat alone. This info was given in response to Q no.1240 asked in #RajyaSabha today by MP Mohammed Nadimul Haque
Finance Minister in her #BudgetSpeech: "New age technologies and #data are changing the lives of people and businesses.......India is showing solutions through innovation and entrepreneurship of its people." (quoted verbatim)
A #thread on Govt denying or ignoring questions on #dataleaks raised in #RajyaSabha today. 1. Q asking if data from UIDAI servers was leaked on dark web recently? Govt's response - No breach of Aadhaar card holders’ data has occurred from the Central Identities Data Repository (CIDR) maintained by the Unique Identification Authority of India. Earlier this year, there were reports of #Aadhaar data of 81.5 crore Indians leaking on dark web - https://livemint.com/news/india/aadhaar-data-leak-personal-information-of-81-5-crore-indians-on-dark-web-top-7-things-to-know-11698737674480.html… This was Q No. 148 asked today by MP Vivek Tankha
Finance Minister in her #BudgetSpeech today: "There is effective and timely delivery of programmes and of large projects.............All forms of infrastructure, physical, digital or social, are being built in record time." (quoted verbatim from Budget speech document available.
411 Central Sector Projects (worth Rs.150 crore & above) have reported cost overrun and 837 projects are delayed: Govt in #RajyaSabha Table below shows department wise status of 1788 projects with total cost overrun of Rs. 4.31 lakh crore.
For its last #ParliamentSession, Govt wants to cram 16 days worth of Parliament's work within just 6 days. Let's see how. #BudgetSession started today with President's Address. No other work happened (usual practice). Tomorrow, #Budget2024 will be laid along with Finance Minister's speech, no other work will happen (usual practice). Out of the 8 scheduled days for the #LastParliamentSession of current Govt, 2 days will be gone, leaving 6 days. For these 6 days, Govt has listed the following as its agenda: - Discussion on President's Address, which usually spreads over 2-3 days and ends with a long speech by PM in both Houses - General Discussion on Interim #Budget, which also usually spreads over 2-3 days, ends with detailed response by FM in both House - Discussion and Voting on Interim Budgets of different Ministries (Demand for Grants on Account) - usually one Demand for Grant discussion takes 1 day (all demands are clubbed together and voted together only after 4-5 days) - Discussion and Voting on Supplementary Grants for current financial year (2023-24) - usually takes 1 day - Presentation of Interim Budget for UT of #JammuKashmir, General Discussion and Voting on Interim Demands for Grants for UT of #JammuKashmir and voting on Supplementary Grants for current year for UT of J&K - even if clubbed together, ideally would have taken 1 full day - Discussion and voting on Finance Bill - 1-2 days - Discussion and voting on 2 other Bills listed - 1-2 days Yes, the 'Interim' Budget is unlikely to be as detailed as the Full Budget, still it cannot require merely a fraction of the usual time spent on the Budget. It doesn't take much to realise that much of this agenda will be rushed through, time spent on debate will be minimal, if at all debate happens!! Also, pay attention to the two Bills that the Govt wants to end its term with - decriminalising #water #pollution related offences for ease of doing business
and greater transparency in public examination systems
since these are coming in the last session, will likely not be sent to a Committee for scrutiny or public consultations.
Manipur doesn't matter.
So, lawmakers had resisted.
Even if the HC says something, the SC would approve of it. What also can you expect from the current CJI who will go down in history?
One look at who headed the bench and you know.
Modi govt has not commented on the ICJ order on Gaza so far. Nor is it telling if it is stalling/ cutting the funding for UNRWA. So much for the Vishwa Guru boast.
MEA spent Rs 9013 crore on "miscellaneous general services" which is not detailed in the explanatory note. [Must be a part of the payment for event management of G20.] And a country claiming to lead the Global South reduces the already petty allocation for developing countries.
Defence allocation in the VoA has actually come down from the RE stage, but if you look at most of the media coverage, you'd think as if a transformative hike has been given.
Bihar: After Protest by Railway job Aspirants, Govt Imposes Sec 144 in Parts of Patna
Pre-Poll Budget Offers no tax Relief, Measly Hike in Funds for Schemes Like MGNREGA
India’s total debt liabilities are estimated to spike at end of 2024-2025 to Rs 183,67,132.46 crore, against Rs 168,72,554.17 crore at the end of 2023-2024.
https://scroll.in/latest/1063063/tax-slabs-unchanged-5-1-fiscal-deficit-target-key-points-from-nirmala-sitharamans-budget-speechBehind deaths in a Nagaland rat-hole mine, drought, desperation of Assam villagers
https://scroll.in/article/1062911/behind-deaths-in-a-nagaland-rat-hole-mine-drought-desperation-of-assam-villagersPaytm Hits Lower Circuit After RBI Action Against Paytm Payments Bank
https://moneylife.in/article/highlights-of-interim-budget-2024-25/73278.html
https://moneylife.in/article/govt-to-encourage-cervical-cancer-vaccination-for-girls/73280.html
Highlights: India plans to spend $134 bln on infrastructure, narrow fiscal gap - interim budget
Interim Budget 2024: Ministry-Wise Budget Allocation List Here
https://www.jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/interim-budget-2024-ministry-wise-budget-allocation-list-1706779955-1Budget 2024 in numbers: Increased allocation in infrastructure; 50-year loan for key sectors | Mint
A list of the top 10 Indian cities in terms of GDP.
Earlier today, several small time depositors of Sahara Group protested at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. Despite government launching the refund portal last year, most said they haven’t got a refund. Kuldeep Jain, a small-time businessman from Nowgong, Madhya Pradesh said, “My daughter-in-law is fighting with cancer, I need the refund. We had to even pay bribe to people at the Common Services Centre (CSC) to upload the documents. I had invested Rs 10 lakh in Sahara, have not received even a penny.”
On January 17, Union Cooperation Minister Amit Shah said that the portal has disbursed Rs 241 crore to 2.5 lakh in investors so far.Vacancies mounting, retirements looming, secretary-level reshuffle at Centre expected soon
https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/vacancies-retirements-secretary-reshuffle-centre-expected-9136769/AAP will protest at BJP headquarters in Delhi against rigging in Chandigarh Mayor elections - Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann will lead.
Small time depositors of Sahara protest in Delhi. Ram Dulare, a sanitation worker from Delhi, said he had invested ₹2.5 lakh in the Sahara cooperatives six years ago but his claim was rejected on the portal.
https://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/sahara-investors-protest-against-government-failure-to-refund-deposits/article67800826.eceStop illegal mining, Mann tells DCs.
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/stop-illegal-mining-mann-tells-dcs-586458Union Budget: The Central Government has only cheated Punjab in the last 10 years - Thousands of crores of rupees are owed to Punjab by the Centre, letters have been written several times: Cheema
AAP will protest at BJP headquarters in Delhi against rigging in Chandigarh Mayor elections - Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann will lead.
Important piece by Prof Dipa Sinha.
There is nothing for education, health, women, elderly and businessmen in the budget: Dr. Sushil Gupta
Real wages in rural India have never risen after 2016-17 and have even fallen after 2020-21. The question to ask is, what happened to Modi's promise of doubling farmers' real income from 2015 to 2022.
