Public Finance

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Jammu and Kashmir budget proposals for 2021-22 to the Lok Sabha on March 17, 2021. This was her second budget presentation. The Rs 108621 crore budget with 11...

Managers of the Rs 4300 crore Provident Fund of the workers in Jammu and Kashmir’s private and public sector were literally yearning for a change that would help improving social security to its members....

The Finance Department budget proposal for the next financial year is a step up over earlier allocation with a focus on infrastructure and certain concessions to sunrise horticulture In the first bureaucratic budget for the...

At the core of state budget is a serious push to public spending so that the economy moves out of the shadows of GST-demonetization impact. Basic arithmetic suggests the employees of the state government are...

Dr Haseeb A Drabu Thursday presented first ever separate Panchayat Budget of Jammu and Kashmir, an attempt to focus on rural governance.  Kashmir Life reproduces full Panchayat budget speech in the larger public interest. Hon’ble Speaker, ...

Dr Haseeb A Drabu Thursday presented the fourth budget as Minister of Finance in the PDP-BJP government. Kashmir Life reproduces full budget speech in larger public interest. Hon’ble Speaker, I rise to present the Annual...

Finance Minister Dr Haseeb Drabu explains the compelling factors that led him to regularize the services of tens of thousands of daily wagers and offered a brief overview of the public spending and the...

State and the central governments would massively invest in incentives to the manufacturing sector, a process that GST has interrupted. As the policymakers insist they are negotiating a new model with the centre to...

After a stressful and rigorous debate within and outside the state assembly, J&K finally joined the GST regime. With constitutional debate over, the real tensions will now rise once the text takes over the...

The pellet-powered government was so shocked by the reaction to new tax regime that it is unable to tell people that it wanted to create a historic precedence for the sake of autonomy otherwise...

Though linked directly with budgeting J&K’s economy for various years, Finance Minister Dr Haseeb Drabu’s third consecutive budget in less than two years is rich in ideas that can change many things, if implemented...

Kashmir Life (KL): You are busy in next budget. But there is an impression that a lot of promises you made in earlier budgets haven’t been kept. Dr Haseeb Drabu (HD): I don’t think that...

Dr Haseeb A Drabu Monday presented second budget as Minister of Finance in the PDP-BJP government. The budget, delayed by over three months due to death of former Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed in...