Budget speeches mirror the policy priorities of the times. Step into the story of India's progress: see how the words used by FMs reflect shifting national goals.Read More
The Union Budget is the most comprehensive report of the central government's finances. The finance minister's Budget Speech is a highly watched event. Millions huddle around television sets in homes and offices as the annual budget can raise or shave off people's incomes.
Over the years, the budget speech has emerged as a powerful occasion to examine what's bubbling inside the government of the day's policy laboratory.
Words that find mention in the finance minister's speech broadly mirror the period's political economy focus as plans and programmes are carefully dovetailed to mirror the political leanings of ruling party or coalition, marrying ideology with economics.
From a mindset of deficit to an attitude of surplus, from an agrarian pre-dominance to a global services and digital powerhouse, from a state-driven industrialisation to a vibrant private industry, the budget speech has captured these all.
Here's an insightful timeseries dipstick of India's moving policy matrix seen through a collective of different family of words in the budget speeches since 1947-48.
The Union Budget is the most comprehensive report of the central government's finances. The finance minister's Budget Speech is a highly watched event. Millions huddle around television sets in homes and offices as the annual budget can raise or shave off people's incomes.
Over the years, the budget speech has emerged as a powerful occasion to examine what's bubbling inside the government of the day's policy laboratory.
Words that find mention in the finance minister's speech broadly mirror the period's political economy focus as plans and programmes are carefully dovetailed to mirror the political leanings of ruling party or coalition, marrying ideology with economics.
From a mindset of deficit to an attitude of surplus, from an agrarian pre-dominance to a global services and digital powerhouse, from a state-driven industrialisation to a vibrant private industry, the budget speech has captured these all.
Here's an insightful timeseries dipstick of India's moving policy matrix seen through a collective of different family of words in the budget speeches since 1947-48.
