Puja Mehra
Consulting Editor at Mint
Consulting Editor, Mint | Senior Fellow (Consultant), ICRIER | Author, The Lost Decade (2008-18)
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2 weeks ago |
htsyndication.com | Puja Mehra |Gireesh Chandra Prasad
New Delhi, June 14 -- States that had sought a higher share of the Union government's divisible pool of tax revenue are likely to be disappointed when the Sixteenth Finance Commission tables its recommendations for the next five financial years. The commission-a constitutional body set up to recommend the distribution of tax revenues between the Centre and states from 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2031-is expected to recommend retaining states' share at 41%, two people said.
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2 weeks ago |
livemint.com | Puja Mehra |Gireesh Chandra Prasad
The Sixteenth Finance Commission is not keen to deviate much from the Fifteenth Finance Commission’s recommendations that were accepted by the government, said the first of the two people mentioned above. “There is a fair chance to go with 41% for vertical devolution," said the second person. Both of them spoke on condition of not being named.
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1 month ago |
livemint.com | Puja Mehra
'What does Trump want?’ is a question much of the world has struggled to answer for weeks since US President Donald Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on trade partners, as well as no-trade geographies inhabited only by penguins and seagulls, and then put them most on pause. He raised tariffs on China, then raised them some more in response to Beijing’s retaliation, only to pause those too. More tariff announcements were made and rescinded.
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2 months ago |
livemint.com | Puja Mehra
On budget day, I was in the Lok Sabha press gallery. The finance minister read out the deficit numbers in the speech. To my relief, the officials hadn’t misled me.
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2 months ago |
htsyndication.com | Puja Mehra
New Delhi, April 13 -- Just before a budget was to be presented by the Narendra Modi government some years ago, I was contacted by finance ministry officials who wanted the fiscal-deficit estimate reported accurately. I didn't see the urgency, but understood the anxiety-the then chief economic advisor's public statements on the deficit had worried the ministry and Reserve Bank of India (RBI). On budget day, I was in the Lok Sabha press gallery.
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