Maharashtra and Jharkhand are going to polls amid heated campaigns that saw ideological clashes, political wrangling, and promises of several free goods and services, colloquially known as freebies. Most states that went to polls in 2023 or 2024 saw their fiscal deficit as a share of the gross state domestic product rise compared to the previous non-election year, showed a …
India’s economic recovery in the early post COVID-19 pandemic phase was distinctly underscored by a strong performance in exports and domestic investments. The FY25 Interim Budget carries forward the ethos of public capex a notch higher, thereby bolstering the government’s commitment to high quality spending. The budgeted capex by the central government, an important metric for capacity creation in the …
After witnessing unprecedented challenges due to the covid-19 pandemic, India’s states are well on their way to recovery, according to the Reserve Bank of India’s Handbook of Statistics on Indian States released last week. Here is what data tells us about states’ growth, finances, wages, and credit, in five charts: Recovering Losses View Full Image Mint ReNew to sell 1GW …
Oil and gas producer ONGC spent about one-fifth less than its budget Capex in 2020-21 fiscal after COVID-19 related restrictions delayed projects but fuel marketers such as IOC exceeded targeted capital spending, a government report showed. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation had budgeted Rs 32,502 crore of capital spending in the fiscal from April 2020 to March 2021 but ended …
