Expertspeak
'Sinha's budget is designed to hit where it hurts most - increase cost to scuttle the CNG strategy and help the petroleum minister to protect the diesel market of the refineries. Public health is simply not the priority'
ANUMITA ROYCHOWDHURY
who is heading the air pollution control unit of Centre for Science and Environment
'Sinha has not included bold measures for greening the budget and changing the manner in which environmental policy is made in India'
SRIKANT GUPTA
Fulbright fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, on leave from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
'Industries needing forest raw material should establish contact with farmers'
N C SAXENA
former secretary, Planning Commission, quoting a working group report in the context of sops to companies for softwood plantations on degraded land
'I'm happy that the finance minister has done all that we wanted him to do for our industry'
MADHUR BAJAJ
executive director, Bajaj Auto Limited