Promises on Paper: How Mid-Year Budget Cuts Are Quietly Gutting India’s Women and Child Welfare Schemes
India’s Budget speech is a carefully choreographed event. Numbers go up, schemes get named, and ministers applaud. But a quieter story plays out months later, in documents called Revised Estimates. This is where the real spending decisions happen. In 2025-26, two of India’s most critical welfare schemes for women and children were slashed significantly at…