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Podcast: In Focus by The Hindu
Episode: Union Budget 2022: What does the budget offer the common man?
Description: With elections coming up in five states, it was expected that the Union Budget for the financial year 2022-23 would focus on addressing the crisis of unemployment. One of the things that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman needed to do in this regard was to increase government spending, and she appears to have done so, increasing the capital expenditure outlay by 35.4%, But will this be enough to draw in adequate amounts of private investment and ensure job creation on a massive scale?Also, how do we understand the logic behind the cuts in subsidies, with fertilizer, food and...