Why India’s Budget Fails To Recognise Care Work
‘Capital expenditure’, ‘development’, ‘welfare delivery’ but not ‘care work’ or ‘domestic workers’. Care remains a hidden infrastructure in the Budget, receiving platitudes and not long-term reforms, experts say
While SC/ST Budget Allocations Rise Marginally, Caste Realities Remains Unaddressed
Even as SC/ST allocations nominally rise in the Union Budget 2026-27, most funds remain non-targeted, underutilised, and inaccessible to the communities they claim to support
Budget 2026: Women and Marginalised Groups Have Been Shortchanged Again
Overall allocations towards women and girls and their utilisations do not seem to show any qualitative change
Labour In Budget 2026-27: Focus Shifts From Rural Women To Urban Men
Cuts to the MGNREGA funds impact the most vulnerable – rural women in the informal work sector from mostly poor states
