Arguing here is seriously more time-consuming than I believe time and again, but it's baffling. At this point, why even publish budget figures? To make a mockery of the budget? If this is the standard of your budget books, what would you expect from other government ledgers? And why would you expect your investors and lenders to believe anything you say?
Total deficit was 4.2%, not the Revised 8.9%. Next one's 9.2%, but it won't be at that level when the Actuals come out. It's just a case of overpromising and underdelivering, typical of bimaru states. They keep returning unspent money.
It's funny how it is normalized. Yeah, sure, they're the BIMARU states, they'll keep doing a worse job at maintaining their *censored*ing BUDGET books than a five year old does at maintaining his notes.
You know that Bihar is still using its budget estimate GSDP figures for its FRBM statement? Like, why? And UP does it even better; they just don't publish anything other than the budget at a glance and the annual financial statement.
And people complain when someone points out the fact that the states that publish borderline dishonest, delusional numbers in their budgets get more and more money from the central devolution pool, while states that have some of the best development and economic indices get less and less money.
It's better to stop justifying governments just because they happen to profess hate for the same group of people that you hate.
Mate, I live in Karnataka, life sucks here.
Yeah, true, that's broadly true. Just replace Karnataka with any state in India, and the statement will still be true.
Welcome to India?
the govt is borrowing like crazy to fund all their free stuff.
Again, except for Odisha, a mineral-rich state that, until the BJP victory in 2024, had a competent government, and Gujarat, a first-world state with third-world human development indicators, this statement stands true for literally every political entity in India, including the supreme leader's own government.
Not saying this justifies the Karnataka government's actions, but this isn't isolated to Karnataka.
These Congi retards are gonna kill us.
Oh, for sure they will. That is if you're still alive after paying the honorable finance minister her share of the cut.
Anyway double engine means central schemes are implemented faster with the same party than with other parties.
It certainly means you get unlimited money with no regard for accountability or past fiscal performance. They get more for what you pay, the richer states get less for what they pay, they fail to narrow the gap, and then they lecture the richer states on how they should manage their budgets, definitely yeah, sure.
Plus it takes time to show on the ground.
Man, it's been 11 years in MP; god knows how many years in Bihar. How much time does it take? These states are still the most underdeveloped, poor, bankrupt, and destitute in what is already a poor country.
Look, I lived in Bengaluru during my undergrad internship; I've been living in Maharashtra (in the obvious city) for my postgrad summer internship. And more or less, I understand the mess that Bengaluru is, and that doesn't speak well for the rest of Karnataka. But then, depending on where you live, Bengaluru can be a heaven compared to Mumbai. The Maharashtra government has been double-engine for 9 years (with a 2-year break when Uddhav Thackeray was in power). And despite the tall promises, as you said, on the ground, Mumbai is a super-expensive, barely livable mess. Anywhere outside Worli, Parel/Prabhadevi, Malabar, and Nariman is a traffic-jammed, dug-up, unwalkable garbage dump. Unless you're willing to pay 60K a month rent for a 650 sq ft apartment in Hiranandani. Heck, for half that price, you can rent an apartment in Indiranagar or HSR ffs. Oh, and Nagpur is barely a city; it's just a bunch of poorly built residential colonies clustered at some points along a super-wide highway.
Oh, and the Maharashtra government has its version of Ladli-Behna, and they're already straining/capping their finances. And mind you, this is barely their first year. Just wait for their second year as well.
And this brings us back to the original post - it's a strange thing in India when a group or a political entity hates the same group of people as you, whether it be caste, religion, lifestyle, or language; everyone just disregards obvious incompetence or malice.
Like, people start justifying a freeze to the education budget by bringing up private schools (like, WTF!!??), entirely overlook the freeze in the healthcare budget, etc.
And when someone points out obvious things like the streets being open-air garbage dumps and rivers being sewage channels, the first response is "Go to Pakistan"!! (seriously WTF!?).
Anyway, I'll end the rant and the argument thread here.
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