government. However, the doubling-up of the
Nirbhaya Fund and the allocation of Rs. 1,000
crore to the 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' scheme,
came as confirmatory steps towards women issues.
Countless schemes have managed to budge the
national conscience in the affirmative, but the
morrows shall ultimately settle on the intent and
substance.
nothing but Hope to his last resort. We hope that
the proposed shade of development does not
come with over-priced tags that we, at the
moment, cannot afford. Or shall we do it at the
cost of the poor? Indian politics needs a breath of
fresh air, urgently. With reference to the Union
Budget, the signs are slightly hazy but definitely
not absent.
Hopeless; resulting from the successive failures of
his own electoral choices, the common man has
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