Kerala Finance Minister

October 13, 2021

Opposition repeats demand for petrol sales tax cut, Balagopal repeats no

Finance Minister N Balagopal had told the House that the government would not reduce the sales tax it imposes on fuel and would oppose any attempt to include them within the ambit of GST.

July 15, 2021
Kerala demands borrowing limit to be 5% without conditions

Kerala Finance Minister KN Balagopal raised the demand at his meeting with Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in New Delhi
June 05, 2021
Balagopal apes Isaac, uses fancy figures to mask Kerala's deep fiscal crisis

To achieve 6.60 percent growth, the economy that faces greater supply and demand constraints than last year has to grow at over 10 percent.
June 03, 2021
Kerala budget: The LDF manifesto as a plank for economic revival?

People’s expectations are high this time around. They want Government benevolence and benefits to continue. Will the State budget accommodate all this?
PODCAST

June 02, 2021
Kerala Budget: Public finance expert for monthly wage for housewives during pandemic | PODCAST

Lekha Chakraborthy, a professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, says a higher commitment to gender budgeting will lower the crime against women.
May 12, 2021
'Reduce expenditure, maintain financial discipline,' says outgoing Kerala FM Thomas Isaac

He handled the state's finances first from 2006-11 in the V S Achuthanandan cabinet and then in the outgoing Pinarayi cabinet.
March 01, 2021
Nirmala Sitharaman's remarks on KIIFB 'utter foolishness', says Thomas Issac

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had recently questioned the role of the KIIFB in Kerala budget-making.

Kerala Finance Minister

Opposition repeats demand for petrol sales tax cut, Balagopal repeats no

Kerala demands borrowing limit to be 5% without conditions

Balagopal apes Isaac, uses fancy figures to mask Kerala's deep fiscal crisis

Kerala budget: The LDF manifesto as a plank for economic revival?

Kerala Budget: Public finance expert for monthly wage for housewives during pandemic | PODCAST

'Reduce expenditure, maintain financial discipline,' says outgoing Kerala FM Thomas Isaac

Nirmala Sitharaman's remarks on KIIFB 'utter foolishness', says Thomas Issac

Check out the poems quoted by FM Thomas Isaac in his budget speech

Pay revision commission to submit interim report soon

It's time to bury Isaac's lie and focus on the fears raised about KIIFB