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Recalibrate growth, reprioritise expenditures
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May 24, 2021 00:51 IST
Protecting total expenditures at the budgeted level and mass vaccination are important in India’s pandemic situation
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Protecting total expenditures at the budgeted level and mass vaccination are important in India’s pandemic situation
The second wave of COVID-19 currently sweeping India is forcing States into successive lockdowns, in turn eroding economic activities. The growth projections of different national and international agencies and the fiscal projections of Centre’s 2021-22 Budget require recalibration.
COVID-19-induced erosion
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), and the Ministry of Finance’s Economic Survey had forecast real GDP growth for 2021-22 at 12.5%, 10.5%, and 11.0%, respectively. Moody’s has recently projected India’s GDP growth in 2021-22 at 9.3%. This is close to the benchmark growth rate of 8.7% whic