Budget Analysis

For a special episode, we unpack the highlights of the budget and analyse why it is electorally important. Rural Affairs editor Harish Damodaran and Consulting editor Shaji Vikraman explain why it’s a political budget, whether it will lead to macroeconomic stability and what they found interesting about the budget. Policy analyst Priyaranjan Dash explains why the 1 lakh crore giveaway comes by way of a slip-up in the fiscal consolidation road-map.