DEMOCRACY INSIGHT

written by: Khyati Srivastava   (khyati.khush@gmail.com) “ Its not NDA vs UPA at all! Its all about reviving the Indian Economy!” says the present Indian Finance Minister, Mr Jaithley, the Mr Dependable of ModiNomics. India has recently constituted its 16 th Lok Sabha after a strong wave that incited the people to bring about a change the nation needs and have a government that can bring ‘ achhe din’! Hence on 26 th May’2014, under the leadership of Shri Narendra Modi BJP led NDA came to power with clear majority and ending the era of (compromising) coalition politics. Eventually the people were direly looking towards the General Budget 2014-15 presented by the new government to welcome the advent of promised ‘ good-days’. On 10 th July’2014, the 45-days old novice government presented its first General Budget. In his around 3-hours Budget speech, Shri Jaithley read 253-paras of general budget 2014-15, covering almost all sectors of the Indian Economy. Opponents

written by: Khyati Srivastava (khyati.khush@gmail.com) Rail-Gadi !! From Reel-life to Real life, Indian Railways are the life-line of Indian traffic. India! With population of over 125cr, the probability to travel of Indians is very high. Hence, you find every where one or the other person rushing towards the travelling lifeline of India, the Indian Railways. Each railway station each day is like a ‘fair market place’ where the festival never ends. Indian Railways is a public sector undertaking completely held by the Indian Government and every year before presenting the Budget of India, Railway Budget is presented. Mr Sadanand Gowda, the present Railway Minister under BJP-led NDA Government headed by Shri Narendra Modi presented the Railway Budget on July 8 th ’2014. The Railway Minister started with explaining the importance of Railways and enlisting the challenges in front of the Railways. “ With 12,500 trains, railways move 23 million passengers every day, whi

  written by: Khyati Srivastava “The prices of vegetables have shot-up, and my wages have been the same! What should a poor person like me eat?! How to survive and make ends meet?!” Often we hear such statements in the market-place from almost every other mouth. The latest UN report on poverty mentions India to have 1/3 rd of world’s total 1.2million extremely poor population . When on every Indian street we find sluggish caricatures in flesh and blood begging for food, the expert committees now and then come-up with mocking figures of livelihood enough for survival. Then, the media encashes another headline to incite the people about how the present careless government is deceiving them with all these figures. Recently, a committee headed by former RBI Governor C. Rangrajan report on Poverty-line came up with figures defining a fresh poverty-line for rural/urban poor. Earlier to that we had Suresh Tendulkar committee recommendations which were flared up by the media with ext