While the Economic Survey is supposed to provide critical context framing the political choices in the Union Budget, on the climate front, the latest one for 2019-20, released by the Government of India, has failed to provide that context, says top environmental journal "Down to Earth".

The latest edition of the Democracy Index spells gloom for India. The world’s biggest democracy slipped 10 places in the 2019 global ranking to 51st place. The survey published on January 22 attributes the primary cause of “the democratic regression” to “an erosion of civil liberties in the country”.