The full text of the 103 rd Constitutional Amendment, which provides for 10 per cent reservation to Economically Weaker Sections, can be accessed here: The Constitution (One Hundred and Third Amendment) Act, 2019 [PDF 1.24 MB] Source: Ministry of Law and Justice, The Gazette of India  

  The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy has been ranked 33 rd among Think Tanks in the China, India, Japan, and Republic of South Korea region by the 2018 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report prepared by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, The Lauder Institute, University of Pennsylvania. [ Ranking Table on p 85 of the Report ]. 2018 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report [PDF 1.58 MB] Source: University of Pennsylvania: ScholarlyCommons  

  With the next General Election scheduled for May, 2019, the National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) Vote on Account, 2019-20, contained announcements that favoured important segments of the electorate: farmers, informal workers, and salaried employees. The Vote on Account was presented to the Lok Sabha on February 1, 2019, by Piyush Goyal, Union Finance Minister. Arun Jaitley, who presented the previous NDA government's budgets since 2014, was undergoing medical treatment in the U.S. [Related link]. A selection of important documents relating to the Vote on Account, 2019-20, can be accessed here:  Interim Budget, 2019-2020:  Speech by Piyush Goyal [PDF 340 KB] Source: Ministry of Finance, Government of India Budget at a Glance 2019-2020 [PDF 482 KB] Source: Ministry of Finance, Government of India Budget Profile [PDF 485 KB] Source: Ministry of Finance, Government of India   Expenditure of Government of India [PDF 421 KB] Source: Ministry of Finance, Government of India Status of Implementation of Budget Announcements, 2018-19 [PDF 66.8 KB] Source: Ministry of Finance, Government of India   The Finance Bill, 2019 [PDF 104 KB] Source: Ministry of Finance, Government of India Vote on Account for Expenditure of the Central Government [PDF 194 KB] Source: Ministry of Finance, Government of India Related Link : The Hindu . 2019 . " Goyal gets additional charge of Finance ", January 24.  

The 34^th C.D. Deshmukh Memorial Lecture was delivered by Jairam Ramesh, former Union Minister and Senior Visiting Fellow, The Hindu Cent