**
Thursday, March 28, 2024
spot_imgspot_imgspot_imgspot_img

Public Finance

A GOVERNMENT FOR SALARIES

As the lawmakers unanimously decided to double their wages for the second time in less than five years, the government employees have intensified their...

Seed Capital Fund Scheme

Sher-e-Kashmir Employment and Welfare Policy for Youth (SKEWPY) was announced as ruling coalition’s flagship plan to manage unemployment by encouraging youth to become entrepreneurs....

J&K Obliges Taxman

People in J&K pay more to income tax than to the state power department. While the power tariff collections in the state were around...

Cleaning Up Registration

After a series of reforms, the stamp duty and the registration process have paved way for better returns to the exchequer. Now the reformed...

MANAGING ECONOMY

Public finances comprise major part of Kashmir’s economy, leaving government as the main employer, spender and the policy maker. As Finance Ministry is rushing...

Budget 2011-12: Industrial units

  The industrial units registered within the State have been enjoying the benefits of exemption from payment of GST under the specified conditions and for...

#Budget2017-18: FinMin Dr Drabu’s Complete ‘Power Budget’ Speech

Dr Haseeb A Drabu Wednesday presented third budget as Minister of Finance in the PDP-BJP government. Kashmir Life reproduces full budget speech of power...

Annual Plan 2012-13

The Planning Commission of India has yet to formally determine the size of the Twelfth Five Year Plan, which, when finalized, will also give us a firm idea about the likely size of our successive annual plans for the coming five years.

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...

Idealist’s Pragmatism

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...

Budget Estimates 2012-13

The next year’s total receipts and expenditure are estimated at Rs 33,853 crore each. The total revenue receipts are estimated at Rs 29,948 crore...

Spending Rs 1 Lakh Cr

In the second consecutive budget that Nirmala Sitharaman presented to the Lok Sabha, the major expenditures continue to remain the same, reports Tasavur Mushtaq Historically the...

Budget 2014 -15

 With the fiscal deficit under control and the overall growth rate better than the national average, J&K is anticipating to spend a record Rs...

Revenue generation: Trade suggests how

As Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather prepares to draft the budget 2009, he has been interacting with trade and industry chieftains for inputs. Kashmir...

Taxing Times

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...