 "Author Sreemoyee Piu Kundu's take on the best and worst things in Budget")
What is the best thing about the Budget?
With toilets comes a lot of emphasis on menstrual hygiene and health, which is great. Giving subsidiaries to women entrepreneurs is also a good move.
And the worst?
Much like single women, the differently abled are an invisible category in this Budget. There’s no mention of loan-waivers to women in the agricultural economy, nothing on safety, housing loans to single mothers or the differently abled. Also, the reference to women as “narayani” is nauseating. Modern women want to be known by their names and the work they do.
Will it
With toilets comes a lot of emphasis on menstrual hygiene and health, which is great. Giving subsidiaries to women entrepreneurs is also a good move.
And the worst?
Much like single women, the differently abled are an invisible category in this Budget. There’s no mention of loan-waivers to women in the agricultural economy, nothing on safety, housing loans to single mothers or the differently abled. Also, the reference to women as “narayani” is nauseating. Modern women want to be known by their names and the work they do.
Will it
