Summary:
Given this, what does the 2017 Budget formulated by Haseeb Drabu, the finance minister of Jammu and Kashmir indicate? The context is the state of Jammu and Kashmir where the state itself is the problem and an issue.
Drabu, by adopting a new or different budget format appears to be attempting to influence the paradigms of public policy in Jammu and Kashmir in a profound manner.
The premise appears to be to change the parameters and nature of governance in the state through public policy.
Drabu , in essence, appears to be manipulating radically the policy conception and process in Jammu and Kashmir.
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By Wajahat Qazi Budgets can , among other things, be held to be indicative of the intent and thrust of public policy and therefore governance.
Budgets are then policy statements, a careful scrutiny of which can reveal the intent, and intended directional thrust of Governments.
Given this, what does the 2017 Budget formulated by Haseeb Drabu, the finance minister of Jammu and Kashmir indicate? First, I may offer a note on the nature of Drabu’s budget: it is copy book.
That is, its main(or what may be even called reformist) thrust or brunt is derived from theoretical and practical developments and accoutrements in the developed world.
Drabu appears to be copy pasting , so to speak developments, refinements, evolution and reforms in public administration in the developing countries and grafting these onto the conditions that obtain in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
What gives grist to the mill to this analysis or assessment is Drabu’s introductory text or speech of the budget.