Detail India's budget: Write-offs as high as an elephant's eye   Oleh:  The Economist Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 386 no. 8570 (Mar. 2008), page 34. Topik: India; Anganwadi; Palaniappan Chidambaram; Profits Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.50 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel ANGANWADI (courtyard) centres look after infants and pregnant women in India's villages and slums. Those who run them feed the children in their care yellow dal to guard against malnutrition and weigh them regularly to keep track of their growth. They help get them immunisation jabs and lead them in songs. Many say they take great pleasure in their work, which is just as well since the stipend is a meagre 1,000 rupees ($25) a month. But on February 29th India's finance minister announced he would raise the monthly stipend of anganwadi workers to 1,500 rupees. It was one of innumerable benedictions dispensed in his budget, the last before the governing United Progressive Alliance, led by the Congress party, has to call an election. Palaniappan Chidambaram had 7.5 trillion rupees to spend. His speech sprawled over 187 paragraphs, stopping to quote an ancient muse, two dead prime ministers and one live one. He found time to protect India's tiger, exempt earnings from pot plants, and tax unfiltered cigarettes as heavily as filtered ones. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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