evidence: In the name of measures for further simplifying tax administration for facilitating compliance, in the current budget the government is actually indulging, rather promoting tax-evasion by the habitually defaulting and tax-evading corporate community. It is revealed that in 2020-21, tax concessions in the form of incentives to corporates was a whopping Rs 72,041 crore, over and above the huge tax default by the same big-business class of Rs 4.05 lakh crore. [...] In most of the important schemes for farmers, the performance has been disappointing and there is no sign of improvement. Many states have withdrawn from the flagship Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) including the pradhan mantri’s own state of Gujarat and many major states such as West Bengal, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. The PM-KISAN scheme was declared to begin with 12 crore farmers and expand coverage to 15 crore farmers. Even after three years, it has only reached 11 crore farmers with an allocation of Rs 68,000 crores. The PM-Krishi Sinchai Yojana had an allocation of Rs 4000 crores in 2021-22 but had an expenditure of only Rs 2000 crores. Now it has been subsumed under an expanded umbrella of RKVY. The RKVY scheme itself had an allocation of Rs 3712 crore last year out of which only Rs 2000 crores were spent.