India: Mammoth Budget Ignores Millions Of Poor – OpEd

By Rock Ronald Rozario

Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the budget for the fiscal year 2021-22 on Feb. 1 with an ambitious plan of spending about US$500 billion to boost an economy reeling from the onslaught of the Covid-19 pandemic.

As the minister outlined financial plans for the nation of 1.3 billion...