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2025 Budget and Digital Rights: Artificial Intelligence Takes Centre Stage

This post summarises the key budgetary allocations for MeitY, MHA, MIB, and DoT, with a specific focus on items which have implications for digital rights. The Union Budget for 2025-2026 reveals a mixed trend in fund allocation for these 4 Ministries as compared to 2024-2025.
11 February, 2025
10 min read
Shravani Nag LankaShravani Nag Lanka & Medha GargMedha Garg
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2024 Budget and Digital Rights: Data Protection Board and IndiaAI Mission get fresh allocation; funds for long-established schemes see reductions

This post summarise the key budgetary allocations for MeitY, MHA, MIB, and DoT, with a specific focus on items which have implications for digital rights. The Union Budget for 2024-2025 reveals an overall increase in funds allocation for these 4 Ministries as compared to 2023-2024.
24 July, 2024
15 min read
Tejasi PanjiarTejasi Panjiar & Shravani Nag LankaShravani Nag Lanka
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Mixed signals: Observations on the 2021-22 Budget

Budget 2021-22 is a mixed bag. Though it contains praiseworthy allocations towards programs such as Digital India and the USOF and provides a stimulus to R&D, allocations towards the PMGDISHA remain low, while concerns remain that signficant capital expenditure may not take place.
02 February, 2021
7 min read
Rohin GargRohin Garg
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Four ways how the 2020 budget can promote the digital economy and rights

We have made 4 recommendations to the Ministry of Finance for the Union Budget 2020-21.
21 January, 2020
2 min read
Apar GuptaApar Gupta

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