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...
Taxing Texts
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...
Budget 2011-12: Structural Reforms
Structural reforms are like medical surgery. Such surgical operations have to be carried out only when they become inevitable and they always result into...
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...
The challenges Ahead
We must recognize that the biggest challenge before us is to boost our economic activities to catch up with national growth rate and per...
Budget In Brief
The Finance Department budget proposal for the next financial year is a step up over earlier allocation with a focus on infrastructure and certain...
The Sweat Money
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...
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...
#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...
Budget 2024-25: An Explainer
The fifth consecutive budget for Jammu and Kashmir that the Lok Sabha passed last week, retains the focus on low expenditure on development and...
Packaged Oddly
Prime Minister Modi’s Rs 80068 crore TAMIER package has its intent rooted in the heart of the right-wing. But how will J&K use this...
Missing Moneybags
State and the central governments would massively invest in incentives to the manufacturing sector, a process that GST has interrupted. As the policymakers insist...
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...
#JKBudget 2018-19: FinMin Dr Drabu’s Complete Budget Speech
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...
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...
