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Updated : Feb 1, 2021

Budget 2021: Here's how govt will raise and spend money

In Budget'21, 51% of finances will come from borrowings and GST collections while interest payments, State's share of taxes and central sector schemes will account for bulk of the expenditure in 2021-22

Updated : Feb 1, 2021

Bigger budget post Coronavirus

Here's how India's budget has increased over the years

Updated : Feb 1, 2021

Boost to capex spends

The budget 2021 projects capital expenditure to increase sharply by 34.4% to Rs 5.54 lakh crore for FY22. This would be the second-highest growth, after a 61.8 per cent in FY08, over two decades  

Updated : Feb 1, 2021

Reducing unemployment is the need of the hour

Unemployment is one of the biggest issues needing urgent attention of the government

Updated : Feb 1, 2021

Goods exports flat; services hold fort

Growth in exports have outpaced imports in the last 10 years. Will Budget 2022 provide further boost to India's exports? 

Updated : Feb 1, 2021

Farm loans, a ticking bomb!

Outstanding farm loans have crossed Rs 12.2 lakh crore till FY20

Updated : Feb 1, 2021

Disinvestment, a laggard

The governments of disinvestment could get a boost from PSUs like LIC and BPCL

Updated : Jan 31, 2021

Will budget 2022 revive India's tumbling economy

India's economy was already on a downhill trajectory, Coronavirus made matters worse. Right allocation to growth-boosting sectors could help in reviving India's growth story

Updated : Jan 31, 2021

Is rising debt sustainable

In the last 10 years, India's external debt has shot up by 1.75 times while the interest payments have risen by more than 3 times

Updated : Jan 31, 2021

Foreign reserves serve as a comfortable cushion

RBI's war chest remains strong with foreign reserves at an all time level of $580 billion

Updated : Jan 31, 2021

India's debt to GDP vs major economies

Here is India's debt to GDP as compared with the world

Updated : Jan 31, 2021

Queuing foreign investors

FDI investments in India have risen by 97% since 2009-10

Updated : Jan 31, 2021

Govt spends a lot more than it earns

Indian government is spending more than what it earns from non-debt sources, resulting in a gross fiscal deficit every year

Updated : Jan 30, 2021

India's access to bare necessities

The Economic Survey 2020-21 states that compared to 2012, access to "the bare necessities" has improved across all States in the country in 2018. It is the highest in Kerala, Punjab, Haryana and Gujarat

Updated : Jan 30, 2021

Why India's sovereign rating is 'biased'

The economic Survey 2020-21 highlights the bias in India's credit ratings and states that never in the history of sovereign credit ratings has the fifth largest economy in the world been rated as the lowest rung of the investment grade (BBB-/Baa3)

Updated : Jan 30, 2021

Budget estimates Vs actual expenditure

Here is what government actually spends as compared with the budget announcements

Updated : Jan 30, 2021

Industrial production still feeling COVID effects

India's Index of Industrial Production (IIP) is yet to recover from coronavirus blues, last fiscal (FY20) the index displayed de-growth at -0.84%, this year too things don't look bright

Updated : Jan 29, 2021

GST collections on the rise

From a low of just Rs 32, 294 crore in April to an all-time high of Rs 1.15 lakh crore in December 2020, GST collections have made a recovery

Updated : Jan 29, 2021

New projections on India's GDP for FY21

Here's what different agencies predict on India's economic growth

Updated : Jan 29, 2021

Expenditure on healthcare needs a boost

India needs to increase its expenditure on healthcare as it spends less than 1.5% of GDP on  health as compared to an average expenditure of 8.8% for OECD countries