What happened
In a display of budgetary parkour, the allocation for the Jal Jeevan Mission was slashed from ₹67,000 crore to a mere ₹17,000 crore, only to be 'boosted' back to ₹67,670 crore in the latest Union Budget. Economists are calling this the 'Boomerang Theory of Finance'—where you take away someone's water pipe on Monday, give it back on Friday, and expect a standing ovation for 'solving the water crisis twice in one week.'