News Update
July 5, 2019
Budget 2019 – Review
1. Total Revenue Receipts 2019-20 = 2248 KCr (12.85% increase over last yr numbers) 2. Major contributors are – Taxes (1652 KCr, 11.2%increase), Railways (214[…]
May 25, 2019
Lok Sabha welcomes 267 first-time MPs
The General Elections are now done and dusted, and we finally know the names which will form the nation’s 17th Lok Sabha. While this was[…]
May 22, 2019
Exit Polls 2019 – 5 States, 89 Seats Difference
Exit Polls 2019 – 5 States, 89 Seats Difference Kartikeya Goel, Founder, FirstTimeVoter.Org India waited for nearly six weeks – from 11th April 2019, when[…]
April 16, 2019
Delhi student’s unique initiative to spread awareness about voting rights
A school student, Kartikeya Goel, from the national capital has started an initiative to encourage first-time voters to register their names in electoral roll and exercise their franchise. Kartikeya (17),[…]
March 25, 2019
The Verdict: Decoding India’s Elections
“Democracy lies at the very core of every Indian’s DNA”, writes Prannoy Roy and Dorab Sopariwala, one of the most well-known faces of election forecasting,[…]
March 8, 2019
How much to budget for Poll Campaign
Every other day, I read about enormous sums required for election campaigns. Political Scientists have estimated that Assembly Election campaigns cost anywhere between Rs. 2[…]
March 8, 2019
Is the Interim Budget a Voter’s Budget?
Budget 2019 has gotten a lot of attention as it moved beyond the normal vote-on-account, to seemingly full fledged budget. There were three significant announcements:[…]
March 8, 2019
What should be the ideal size of Lok Sabha
Here’s the data for number of seats for each election year. 1952 – 489 seats 1957 – 494 seats 1962 – 524 seats 1967 –[…]
March 8, 2019
Retired Civil Servants write to ECI on EVM Controversy
We are a group of former civil servants of the All India and Central Services who have worked for decades with the central and state[…]
March 8, 2019
The Green Horn Party
Is the greenhouse effect only gas, or is it a bomb waiting to explode? And if greenhouse and the environment is as important as it[…]