Read The Wire‘s analysis of this year’s budgetSanjaya Baru, Mister Jaitley’s Mid-Course CorrectionMK Venu, Modi Has Managed the Optics, Now Comes the Task of ImplementationBharat Dogra: The Poor Badly Needed a Good Budget This Year. Well, They Didn’t Get It.Vivan Sharan, Three Structural Challenges that the Budget Hopes to OvercomeJean Dreze and Reetikha Khera, What One Chart and One Table of Budget Keywords Tell Us About Official PrioritiesSudha Mahalingam, This Year’s Budget is Low on EnergyKiran Bhatty, A Budget that Evades the Real Issues in the Social SectorDipa Sinha, Neglecting Health Expenditure in Favour of the Chimera of InsuranceYamini Aiyar, Social Sector Investments in Budget 2016 No Different Than Previous YearSaumitra Chaudhuri, Non Tax Revenues Rescue the FRBM ShipSangeeta Barooah-Pisharoty, Activists Reject Jaitley’s Claim of Highest Ever Allocation for MNREGAThe Wire Staff, No Room for Piketty: Where the Budget Stands on InequalityGaurav Vivek Bhatnagar, Employees’ Unions Criticise Budget Plan to Tax Provident FundFor The Wire’s live blog details of the budget as it was presented, please read below