Monday, February 15, 2016

Under-budgeting for Pensions. Not this year ?

We have an excellent article from BusinessLine today, highlighting the need to avoid Under-budgeting for Pensions and Subsidies. The table given says that it is a usual practice to under-budget for Pensions  to an average deviation of 21.3 % for Pensions, during the last years. This makes the Centre's budget unrealistic !

The Economists now suggest that this should be avoided. This year (FY 16-17), there is a need for 1.1 lakh crore towards 7CPC and OROP implementation. Unless the whole money is provided for, there is a critical issue of managing the fiscal deficits. So, the effort is to make the Budget realistic !!

Please read the full article below ..



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