Despite 10 years of funding, #SmartCityMission has been limited to surface-level fixes on aging infrastructure.
The mission has delivered temporary solutions that lack a forward-thinking approach in strategies.
✍️@asmi_26 & @nancy_pathak@_FANIndia
https://t.co/EhN5bPuAP9
After all the ultra rich & powerful will want no accountability, no oversight, no news, no information. So that they can continue their loot. But if we stand against inequality & exploitation, we must protect laws like the RTI. No democracy without accountability.#RTI#TaxTheTop
Thomas Piketty, now member of a 11 member committee appointed by Telangana govt to analyse caste survey and inequality has been a vocal advocate for a wealth tax on India's super rich to address the widening inequality.
https://t.co/okl07h1WII
#TaxTheTop
👉🏾 The Union Budget 2025-26 Wrap from CFA: All in one place
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A set of videos, reports and articles that cover what the budget should have been, and what the budget isn't. Listen, read and share this for a people's punch 👊🏽 on the Budget 2025-26 that the mainstream media won't talk about.
🔵 What the Budget should have been: A 14 part video series co-created with The Wire
🎙 Prabhat Patnaik | Arun Kumar | Jayati Ghosh | Nikhil Dey | Indranil | Thomas Franco | Beena Pallical | Anuradha Talwar | Ritu Dewan | Soumya Dutta | Vijoo Krishnan | Dipa Sinha | Dinesh Abrol | Tikender Singh Panwar
https://t.co/nJHAvznWxU
🔵 The Budget India Needs: A People's Blueprint of the 2025-26 Budget
https://t.co/8ZwwS2y7PL
🔵 The Ostrich Budget: An analysis of the Union Budget 2025-26
https://t.co/ghgW3LGJMz
🔵 Budget for National Social Assistance Program Remain Stagnant Yet Again
✒ Asmi Sharma & Nancy Pathak @asmi_26@nancy_pathak
https://t.co/29j3ecNuGH
🔵 The Banking Sector Reveals that the Middle Classes aren't really getting a bonanza
✒ Anirban Bhattacharya & Pranay Raj
https://t.co/UM7of79WLK
🔵 पर्यावरण संकट को लेकर बजट प्रावधान नाकाफी
✒ राज कुमार सिन्हा
https://t.co/oKCxybb3jM
🔵 Budget 2025 – Rhetoric Repeated
✒ Thomas Franco @alwaysfranc
https://t.co/YiCFCKMNVf
🔵 A (Few) "People's Budget"
✒ Anirban Bhattacharya, Amitanshu Verma & Pranay Raj @BanOrAnir@amitanshujnu@Pranay_Raj10@thewire_in
https://t.co/xxAtvgw8fM
🔵 Tax relief to a miniscule minority while majority struggle
✒ Anirban Bhattacharya
https://t.co/iXSgiCzCWl
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CENTRE FOR FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY
For over a decade, the NSAP budget has been systematically undermined.
@nancy_pathak and I break down the numbers and discuss what a meaningful social security framework should look like
👉 https://t.co/X9usAHsSJL @nikhilmkss@givepensions@NPRD_IN
Hydropower is often touted as a clean energy source ⚡, but building dams in unsupportive regions threatens lives and livelihoods. We need to rethink our approach & harmonise safety & sustainability in energy demands. 💡🛑 #OneYearofTeesta3Collapse 1/n
Today marks one year since Chungthang dam collapsed due to the South Lhonak glacial Lake outburst. The devastation, exacerbated by the dam, continues to haunt Sikkim region as infra projects continue unabated alongwith rising temperatures. 🌍💧#ChungthangdisasterAnniversary 1/n
Nicobar (8,000 sq km) plans a mega-project: port, airport, city, power plant. But, the ecological, geological, economic & legal concerns along with the impact on indigenous people, needs careful review says @pankajsekh#TheGreatNicobarBetrayal
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The luxury property market in India has recorded over 1.5 times growth in the sales value of luxury homes priced at Rs 50 cr and above reaching Rs 4,319 crore in 2023. While the majority of Indians have per capita space of 10ft x 10 ft or less #TaxTheTop
https://t.co/eyRIKsLyW6
Mody Antoinette! “Toh kya sabke sab gareeb honey chaahie?” This was PM’s response when asked why are rich getting richer and poor getting poorer in his rule. #EndTheBillionaireRaj
Under Modi,corporate tax rates were slashed from 30% to 22% in 2019, leading to a revenue loss of Rs 1.84 lakh crore in two years.This amount exceeds the budgets of both MGNREGA and NFSA combined in 2020-21.
#EndTheBillionaireRaj#LokSabhaElections2024
For ten yeaes we have suffered a fascist government whose sole achievement has been the billionaires wealth growing multifold. We've witnessed no "trickle down", no "wealth creation", "no jobs" -- all neoliberalism's favorite fig leaves. Vote out BJP. #EndTheBillionaireRaj
Employment in manufacturing dropped from 12.8% in 2012 to 11.5% in 2018, far below Bangladesh's 16%. It's taken until 2022 to recover to 2012 levels. A lost decade for youth while Adani’s wealth increased by 1225% in 10 years.
#EndTheBillionaireRaj#LokSabhaElections2024
In 2023, 46% of India's workforce is under-employed in agriculture, contributing only 15% of GDP. The FM's claims of skill utilisation seem wishful. He seems to be "skilled" only in enriching his corporate friends.
#EndTheBillionaireRaj#LokSabhaElections2024
The number of Cases of wilful defaulters increased to about 1.6 times than in 2014, with 9,249 cases of accounts defaulting 25 lakhs and above is 1,96,930 cr as of November 2023. These were public's savings which defaulters took away
#EndTheBillionaireRaj#LokSabhaElections2024