union budget 2023-24

Budget Neglects Rural Poor, MNREGA Allocations Slashed: AIAWU

THE central working committee of the All India Agricultural Workers Union has condemned the union budget for 2023-24 as anti-people as it fails to do anything about the huge problems of unemployment and hunger. This budget is a brazen attack on the livelihood of rural people as there is a decrease of 33 per cent in the allocation for MNREGA. This year it is only Rs 60,000 crore, while the revised estimate for 2023 was Rs 89,400 crore, up from the budget estimate of Rs 73,000 crore. Moreover the availability of working days under MNREGA was only 42 days, the lowest in recent times.

Amrit Kaal Budget Turns Venomous for People: CITU

THE union budget presented by the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman is nothing but a political jumla. It does not utter a word on the grim economic situation facing the country, though the Economic Survey sought to camouflage it by presenting a rosy picture.The Economic Survey itself predicted a decline in GDP to 6.5 per cent in 2022-23. Such downward spiral in growth for four consecutive years is unprecedented in the history of independent India. There is de-growth in the manufacturing sector, which came down to 1.6 per cent against 9.9 per cent last fiscal.

Budget Attacks Farmers & Workers with Vengeance: AIKS

THE Union Budget 2023-24 presented by the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman is a Budget for the rich, prepared at the behest of the corporate cronies; it is against the interests of the farmers, the poor and toiling masses. It was high on rhetoric and hollow on actual allocations for agriculture and rural development. The BJP government has refused to implement the minimum support prices as per the MS Swaminathan Commission recommendations of C2+50 per cent nor ensured legal guarantee for MSP, leading to increasing distress for farmers. This budget does nothing to mitigate the situation.

Budget: A Fraud on Women says AIDWA

THE All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) sees the Modi government’s last full budget before the general elections of 2024, as an attempt to hoodwink women and working people of the country in order to promote the agenda of big corporate houses. The narrative unleashed by the government in the name of the budget, is designed to perpetrate false hoods and show that all is well, and people are becoming prosperous.

Budget Represents Loot Kaal Not Amrit Kaal: AARM

THE Adivasi Adhikar Rashtriya Manch states that for the adivasi communities across India the budget 2023-24 represents loot kaal not amrit kaal. According to official guidelines, the budgetary allocations for adivasi development under the Tribal Special Scheme (TSS) earlier known as Tribal Special Plan (TSP) should be proportionate to the adivasi population which, even going by the 2011 census is 8.6 per cent of the total population. Accordingly, budgetary allocations for adivasis should be 8.6 per cent of total budgetary expenditure.

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