Maharashtra Gears Up For Drought And Elections
The Budget for 2013-14 would be the last for the Congress-NCP alliance in Maharashtra before the elections next year. And in a year when the state is facing an acute…
Maharashtra’s Opaque Road Projects
Maharashtra was one of the first states in India to actively involve the private sector in infrastructure projects. But the state has not displayed the same ingenuity in providing…
Mumbai City Spends More On Education Than Roads, Most On Water Supply
HIGHLIGHTS * Salary & Pension bill is up Rs 1,820 crore * Octroi collections At Rs 6,900 crore, 35% Of Income * Increase in expenditure on roads, health and…
Meet India’s Chronic Over Spenders
It’s not exactly breaking news but a closer look at how various Indian states are managing their budgets is insightful. IndiaSpend’s Dhritiman Gupta finds that many Indian states spend…
India’s 10 Most Indebted States
Debt is not bad. Many firms raise large chunks of it in their growth and expansion phases. Some ease out of it with time. Others struggle. But while the stakeholders…
Maharashtra Taxes Beedis But Salary Bill Goes Up In Smoke
India’s most industrialised state (some may disagree) presented its State Budget last week. While Maharashtra is the most indebted state in the country at Rs 2,28,590 crore, the state has…
Maharashtra’s Municipal Accounting Whodunit
SPR Foundation in an earlier report had highlighted how it was near impossible to get a consolidated view of a state’s finances. A new Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) report shows how municipal corporations, in addition…