NIRMALA SITARAMAN

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Budget and Bihar: Changing its image from crime-ridden to growing and developed

July 31, 2024 Vinayak Barot

(Guru Prakash) Since the announcement of the 2024 Budget, Bihar has taken centre stage in both the media and the minds of economic analysts. Most opinions and social media memes on it revolve around Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s speech dedicating the “first 25 minutes” to either Bihar and Andhra Pradesh as a result of coalition […]

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India a very well-regulated financial market – Finance Minister

February 3, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Allaying fears about regulatory control of financial markets amid the Adani-Hindenburg row, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman called India a “very well-regulated financial market.” Quoting the senior executives of SBI and LIC, the Finance Minister, speaking to the media said that they are not overexposed to Adani group stocks. “They have very clearly said that […]

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EWS quota provides social justice to the economically marginalised

November 9, 2022 Vinayak Barot

(Dr. Guru Prakash Paswan) In his book Why Socialism? Jayaprakash Narayanwrites: “Socialism is not a code of personal conduct but a system of social reconstruction. When we speak of applying socialism to India, the first thing that strikes us is the strange and painful fact of inequalities — of rank, of culture, of opportunity: a […]