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The 2G Auction: Rigged to Flop?

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Prabir Purkayastha, November 22, 2012

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The recent auction of the 2G spectrum has drawn bids of only Rs. 9,407 crore. Various spokespersons of the Congress and Union ministers have been propagating that this somehow justifies Raja’s illegal first-come-first-served policy of giving away spectrum.

Union Budget 2012-13: An Exercise in Neo-liberal Policy-making

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Subhanil Chowdhury, Pragoti, 16-March-2012

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The Union Budget was placed by the Finance Minister in the Parliament on Friday 16th March 2012. Right in the beginning of his speech he mentioned that there has been a growth slowdown in the economy, the rate of inflation remained high and the fiscal deficit overshot the target. Given this situation of the economy, it was hoped that the budget will address these problems. The article tries to analyze how far the Finance Minister has been successful in providing solutions to these problems.

  

2G Scam: Chidambaram on the Dock

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Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick, 29 Sept., 2011

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UPA is sinking deeper and deeper into mire on the 2G case. It is now clear that the then Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram had indeed given his concurrence to pegging the license fees for 2G in 2008 to 2001 level. This is the core of the 2G scam that has led to a huge loss to the exchequer. It is not, as Kapil Sibal, the current Minister of Communications & IT would have us believe that the scam is merely of procedural violations in award of the licenses. In Kapil Sibal's scheme, there has been “no loss” to the exchequer, a claim repeated ad naseum by him and the Congress spokespersons; only some lapse in which some people jumped the queue and got licenses in preference to others.

2G Scam - Chidambaram's role officially acknowledged

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Newsclick Production, 28 Sept., 2011

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With notes of Pranab Mukherjee and role of P Chidambaram becoming the focus, the ghost of 2G spectrum scam keeps haunting the UPA, especially Congress. Eminent Journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta speaks to Newsclick on the issue.

'Homilies for the aam aadmi, concessions to the rich'- Shankar Raghuraman on Union Budget 2011

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Newsclick Production, March 5, 2011

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Deputy Editor of the Times of India, Shankar Raghuraman comments on the Union Budget for 2011-12.

Indian Union Budget 2010: Newsclick Commentary

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Newsclick Production, 6 March 2010

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Union Budget 2010 has been criticised by the opposition and other commentators as being pro-rich. Newsclick examines.

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