There are 26.8 million people with general disabilities in India and Anil Thombre, a musician from Dharashiv district, Maharashtra thinks they should get more attention in the Union Budget
February 11, 2025 | Medha Kale
A migrant domestic worker in Kolkata asserts that anything the government gives ordinary people like herself, comes from the indirect taxes it levies on them
February 11, 2025 | Smita Khator
Ganesh Shinde, a cotton farmer for over three decades now, sees little hope in the ‘Mission for Cotton Productivity’ proposed in the Union Budget 2025
February 10, 2025 | Parth M.N.
Help during the pandemic and better procurement prices for milk are what a buffalo herder and a waste picker in Haryana want from the government. A higher income tax exemption was never their concern
February 10, 2025 | Amir Malik
In Chennai, the widow of a rural migrant and sanitation worker who died while cleaning a septic tank asks the government to explain how union budget 2025-26 benefits her
February 10, 2025 | Kavitha Muralidharan
The Union Budget 2025 has little relevance to the daily life and labour of Syed Khurshid, a third-generation tailor in Maharashtra's Parbhani district
February 8, 2025 | Parth M.N.
In Kerala’s forests, the Kadar Adivasi community soon to be displaced for a hydro electric project, say the Union Budget 2025 will not help them survive displacement due to ‘development’
February 8, 2025 | K.A. Shaji
A fruit seller from Tuljapur says he has never heard of the Union Budget
February 8, 2025 | Medha Kale
Landless Bhil Pardhi families in Maharashtra still struggle with social stigma and deprivation after years of being denotified of their ‘criminal’ status. They don’t see the budget changing anything for them
February 7, 2025 | Jyoti Shinoli
In Nagpur’s Zamkoli village, concerns about crop prices and tax recovery trump tax cuts in the Union Budget
February 7, 2025 | Jaideep Hardikar
A bread-maker in Baramulla, Kashmir, says he can’t find anything of interest to people like him in the budget. Rising prices worry him more than tax exemptions
February 7, 2025 | Muzamil Bhat
In his fifties, a rickshaw puller in Kolkata says tax exemptions mean nothing to people like him who still live in tarpaulin shanties, and must travel to the capital every day for daily wage work
February 6, 2025 | Smita Khator
A joint family in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh find the Union Budget and its enhanced tax exemption limit has no relevance for them
February 6, 2025 | Jigyasa Mishra
They’re from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, working as semi-skilled and unskilled labourers and street vendors in Karnataka. None of them was ever within the tax bracket, old or new, as announced in the Union Budget 2025
February 6, 2025 | Pratishtha Pandya
An aging Dalit woman in Bihar’s Vaishali district believes the budget is a rich person’s game. What she wants from government is a regular income
February 5, 2025 | Umesh Kumar Ray
A nomadic ironsmith labouring in Punjab asks what the government has done for people like him
February 5, 2025 | Vishav Bharti
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