Budget 2011-12: The SKEWPY
On the 10th August, 2009, while presenting the first budget of the present government, I had unfolded the broad contours of the mission employment...
Budget 2011-12: School Education
The next year’s plan shall focus on reduction of gender gap in education and literacy. State share of Rs 506 crore has been proposed...
Budget Estimates 2011-12
I will now briefly state the salient features of the Annual Financial Statements dealing with the Budget Estimates for the ensuing fiscal 2011-12. The...
Budget 2011-12: Revised Estimates 2010-11
This August House had voted a budgetary expenditure of Rs 25,984 crore for the current fiscal. The Revised Estimates are now placed at Rs...
A Privileged FM
I am, indeed, privileged to rise before this august House, to present in succession, the third annual budget of the coalition government headed by...
Rangarajan III
Rangarajan committee has submitted its report on employment generation in J&K. Will the recommendations see implementation or will it meet the same fate as...
Budget 2010-11
Kashmir Life reproduces the J&K Budget 2010-11 presented in the legislative assembly by the finance minister Abdul Rahim Rather on Friday, March 13 2010.
Hon’ble...
No case for taxman
A Supreme Court order has shagged off the taxman from the backs of industrialists and on the way saving them a whooping Rs 900...
Drabu’s antidote for PSUs
A committee on PSU reforms lead by Dr Haseeb Drabu has undone the recommendations of Godbole committee set up in 1998. While Godbole recommended...
PACKAGING POLITICS
The last two decades have seen various prime ministers announce a flurry of economic packages for Jammu and Kashmir. The state government is expecting...
Additional Resources Mobilization (ARM)
I am reminded of several quotes about taxation. One of them says that, “taxes, like Mothers-in- law, are often misunderstood”. The other quote says...
EMPLOYMENT GENERATION
Hon’ble Members of this august House may appreciate that the problem of unemployment in the State has reached alarming proportions and, as such, deserves...
Employees and Pensioners
All our development programmes and regulatory functions are being preformed by the government employees and, as such, their welfare too is a legitimate concern...
A very Special challenge
Rehabilitation of our Kashmiri Pandit brothers and sisters and bringing them back to the social mosaic of Kashmir continues to be of prime importance...
Inclusive Development
There are various segments of our society which have traditionally remained behind in receiving benefits of development programmes. The government shall continue its endeavor...