Social sector should get its due share in budget 2017



Every budget is important for the social sector as it fixes the allocations and direction of the various government schemes and programmes. The current budget follows the previous two budgets where the social sector has been largely neglected, with massive cuts in the allocations for a number of programmes. This has been justified on the grounds that the primary responsibility lies with the states, which should make adequate allocations from the additional funds they now have access to as a result of the increased share of revenue they are getting following the Fourteenth Finance Commission.