It is comprehensively “growth” oriented.
What were the factors that resulted in the 2021 Budget?
The country has been experiencing slow and low growth since 2015, which by 2019 was only 2.3% vis-à-vis 5% in 2014. Contractors and suppliers who had supplied a good or a service to the Government had not been paid their dues, which by the end of 2019 was almost Rs. 250 billion. NPL in the banks had increased to almost 5% from the lows of 1-2 % with almost 25% of those in the NPL constituted by SMEs. The electricity sector that requires at least 200 MW to be added annually did not see a single MW added to the electricity generation capacity.