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: 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
MS Moneybag
Every time Prime Minister Manmohan Singh lands in Kashmir, he makes promises to change the socio-economic discourse by pumping resource to manage the deficit....
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...
Budget 2011-12: Animal Husbandry
A liquid nitrogen plant with 21 litre/per hour capacity is being established at Zainakot. Embryo Transfer Technology laboratory is being established at Panthal for...
Budgeting Next Fiscal
J&K’s yearly requirement for funds are increasing with every passing year. But the interesting part is that while the devolution from the central tax poll are...
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...
#Budget2017-18: FinMin Dr Drabu’s Complete 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 in larger...
“We are working towards to do a budget which will take us away from...
Ever since he joined politics in the summer of 2014, economist Dr Haseeb Drabu has remained busy 24x7. After helping his party contest Lok...
