Budget amidst unprecedented circumstances.
The digital progress made in health and education has not reached everyone and the gaps need to be fixed.
The COVID-19 pandemic has also posed a risk to the battle against malnourishment and food coupons may be a way out.There are high expectations from the
Budget 2021, which comes about a year after India recorded its first confirmed COVID-19 case. With the pandemic severely disrupting business as usual, the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be presenting the Union Budget amidst unprecedented circumstances.
The crisis has opened up opportunities in education and health but the new ideas have not been able to cross the social fault lines of an unequal society. So, it may be time to bridge those divides with innovative programmes like food coupons for the malnourished, and spending money to ensure that no one is left behind in all the digital progress made in health and education.