A look at the Budget
While making an overall assessment of the Budget, one should not lose sight of the fact that only around 2% of Indians pay income- tax. One wonders what relief has been provided to the millions without any sort of employment. The disproportionate bounty doled out to poll-bound Bihar poses yet another challenge to India’s constitutionally mandated federal principles.
Manohar Alembath,
Kannur, Kerala
Health care for all citizens is very important. While the rich can afford medical facilities abroad, it is the middle-income group which finds it difficult to access health insurance policy due to the high GST levied. Further, there is the plight of senior citizens. I retired from a public sector unit and now have bladder cancer.
After undergoing the initial forms of treatment such as tablets, radiation and chemotherapy, I am still not out of the problem. The next stage of treatment I have been advised is to have immunotherapy injections, with each injection costing ₹2,18,500; 17 injections are to be administered in a year. I hoped that the Budget would have had provisions to help cancer patients.
A. Jainulabdeen,
Chennai
NREGA and dues
One fails to understand why there are mounting and pending dues to MGNREGA workers. Unless the lives of the poor are improved, the strong advertisement that it is a new India leading the world, would be an exaggeration. Survival over living is the order of the day. The government seems to have all the money for freebies, but no money to pay wages. What a sorry state of affairs.
Balasubramaniam Pavani,
Secunderabad
Published - February 03, 2025 12:24 am IST
