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...
“You are living in the most uncertain economy in the world”
Kashmir Life (KL): You are busy in next budget. But there is an impression that a lot of promises you made in earlier budgets...
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...
Some VAT measures
The traders have been confronting a genuine problem of penal action by the authorities for non compliance of rules which were notified much after...
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.
Budget 2011-12: Empowering Farming community
The present government has given due recognition to the needs of empowering our farming community and strengthening of the Agriculture and Allied sectors. Honourable...
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...
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...
#Budget 2016-17: FinMin Dr Drabu’s Full Budget Speech
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...
#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...
The Government’s Armies
J&K government is the employer of the last resorts in the state that is suffering from comparatively high unemployment rate and lack of a...
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...
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...
“Daily-wagers case was a social crisis”
Finance Minister Dr Haseeb Drabu explains the compelling factors that led him to regularize the services of tens of thousands of daily wagers and...
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...