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Govt plans ₹21,000 crore extra spending

The funds will be used to infuse ₹4,557 crore into IDBI Bank and ₹2,500 crore into state-run insurance firmsMost forecasters have cut growth projections for FY20 and expect the economy to have grown below 5% in Sep quarter

2 min read29 Nov 2019
Companies

We are looking for entrepreneurs who understand challenges in education: Ragini Bajaj Chaudhary

With govt spending on education at around 3% of the annual budget, private capital bringing in around $200 mn each year and CSR investment of $500 mn as of 2016, it's not that education has not attracted investment

1 min read3 Oct 2018
Market

Entry-level motorcycle sales make a comeback with rising rural optimism

Higher government spending on the farm community and on infrastructure, irrigation and housing in rural areas will cascade into higher consumption

1 min read24 Apr 2018
Market

Will the cement sector regain its pricing power anytime soon?

Cement prices have failed to sustain at higher levels because real estate activity, especially from the housing segment, is still in the doldrums

2 min read17 Apr 2018
Opinion

A criminal breach of trust

All the cloak and mirrors that governments over time have engaged in, and continue to do, can be traced to the total lack of accountability for outcomes

4 min read6 Feb 2018
Opinion

How the Union budget is losing its mojo

The Union budget is now evolving into more of an annual macroeconomic statement, especially the centre's stance on the fiscal deficit

3 min read5 Feb 2018
Politics

What are governments spending their budget money on?

The matrix below shows where the Union government and 31 state governments spent in 2015-16

1 min read30 Jan 2018
Opinion

Budget 2018: macro-stability, not growth, should be main concern

Now is not the time to jettison our hard-won macro-economic stability, or policies that have enabled us to move from being one of 'the fragile five' to a favoured investment destination

4 min read30 Jan 2018
Opinion

Budget 2018-19: what banks will watch out for

With the bank recapitalisation done and dusted, the focus shifts to the rising bond yields that have hit the banks' balance sheets hard.

6 min read29 Jan 2018
Market

Govt spending pace weakens in June, but Q1 expenditure impressive

For the June quarter as a whole, expenditure was up by Rs1.39 trillion or 27%, from a year ago

1 min read3 Aug 2017
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