April 02, 2025 5:27 am
She was replying to Chidambaram’s question on why the Central government cut capital expenditure from `11.11 lakh crore to `10,18,429 crore
February 02, 2025 1:33 am
The pace of capital expenditure slowed down in the current year primarily due to elections and monsoon-related disruptions. There have also been concerns about capex reaching capacity utilisation constraints.
January 09, 2025 5:45 am
The central government aims to reach a fiscal deficit below 4.5 per cent next year, in line with the fiscal consolidation path outlined in 2021.
December 21, 2024 10:49 pm
Many states asked for an increase in allocations for the 50 years interest-free loan scheme, especially to focus on capital expenditure
November 18, 2024 9:32 am
As per rating agency ICRA, data for 15 major states shows that the combined revenue receipts, revenue expenditure and capex are required to expand by 30 per cent, 26 per cent and 40 per cent, respectively, in the second half (H2) of FY25, to meet the budgeted target for the fiscal.
November 12, 2024 7:37 am
The government has nudged the ministries to expedite the pace of capital expenditure to avoid bunching up of capex in the January-March quarter.
August 24, 2024 12:04 am
“A healthy 10 per cent annualised increase in cement demand in the past three fiscals outpaced growth in capacity addition, pushing utilisation level to a decadal high of 70 per cent in fiscal 2024 and prompting manufacturers to press the capex pedal,” it said.
April 20, 2024 1:43 pm
Centre has been meeting its capex targets, but trajectory of private sector and state governments is less certain
February 21, 2024 12:30 am
In the Interim Budget for 2024-25, the government announced a lower market borrowing for FY25 compared to FY24.

