The government's planned capital expenditure for the current fiscal has been increased to Rs 4.39 trillion, as against the Budgeted Rs 4.12 trillion
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday proposed to increase the capital expenditure to Rs 5.54 lakh crore in the financial year starting April 1, 2021
Here are the key numbers to watch out for in the Budget for 2021-22, which is widely expected to be a "economic vaccine" for the pandemic-battered economy.
If such capital expenditure was incurred as part of CSR in the past, the assets need to be transferred within six months.
Move in line with Centre's directive to increase expenditure for economic revival
In the fifth episode, we discuss about expenditure side of the Budget and look at sectors that have traditionally not been India's top expense areas but are now in the spotlight because of pandemic
Healthcare and education are some of the important sectors that are usually not given the attention they deserve in India’s Union Budgets. It has been so for many years. But the situation this time is different. At a time when the country – indeed, the entire world – is working to tide over a health crisis presented by the coronavirus pandemic, will Budget 2021 make a departure from the trend and place its expenditure focus on these sectors? In the fifth episode of ‘Beyond Budget Headlines with AKB’, Business Standard’s special video series in the run-up to Budget 2021, we discuss about the expenditure side of the Budget and look at sectors that have traditionally not been India's top expense areas but are now in the spotlight because of recent developments. The government needs to loosen its purse string in this pandemic Budget and spend more on the health sector, says our in-house policy expert A K Bhattacharya.
The first two quarters of FY21 saw a poor focus on capex from the states' side, data showed
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Budget 2021-22 will be full of challenges. Here are some recommendations for Finance Minister Sitharaman from D K Srivastava, chief policy advisor, EY India
Of this, Rs 4,939.81 crore has been released in the first tranche
Fail to meet govt directive to spend 50%, but experts say trend encouraging
Once commissioned, the proposed clinker unit will service JSW Cement's manufacturing facilities across East India and is expected to create around 500 direct and indirect jobs
The company said that the demand is good and it is bullish about Q3 & Q4
Things that cannot go on forever will not go on forever. There will be a change in the direction of the wind. One must hope it will be slow and calibrated, writes T N Ninan
The government is hoping that the green shoots visible in high-frequency data will further translate into a GDP uplift. And the latest measures - pragmatic and specific - will aid that
While ICRA estimates an 11 per cent contraction in the overall GDP in FY21, it expects the contraction to narrow to 5-7 per cent in the Q3 and 1-2 per cent in Q4
Result of labour unavailability and high base, say experts
Minor tinkering and a reluctant increase in expenditure are unlikely to generate demand at a meaningful scale
The government will also give interest-free 50-year loans to the States for capital expenditure of Rs 12,000 crore
The central allocation of Rs 25,000 crore, in addition to Rs 4.13 trillion given in the Union Budget, would be provided to states for capital expenditure