Prasanta Sahu

The 17 states under review reported an 13.3% growth in their tax revenues in H1FY25 at Rs 12.71 lakh crore compared with the 14.73% growth recorded in the year-ago period.

Despite an improvement in capex by the central public sector enterprises (CPSEs), aggregate capex by public sector entities including NHAI and the Railways declined 8% on year in April-October of the current financial year.

The Centre may increase the outlay for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) by around 10% over the budget estimate

Climate financing and debt sustainability are the other important subjects on Rio meet agenda. Leaders of the 19 member countries, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will attend the top-level meet.

The public private partnership (PPP) model, which has met with success in many areas including telecom, airports, seaports and metro rail, is now getting into the arena of social infrastructure.

The Centre has tweaked the capital management guidelines, giving the central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) more operational and financial

There is not enough public money in the world to tackle Net Zero. Private finance will play a fundamental role in achieving this.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently said that in the last 10 years, 100,000 new medical seats have been added, with plans to increase that number by another 75,000 over the next five years.

A recent RBI report has urged municipal corporations to boost their own sources of revenue through tax reforms, rationalised user charges, and better collection mechanisms.

Given that the existing players are not sufficient to cater to the 1.4 billion population, the government will likely introduce a bill to push for 100% foreign direct investment in insurance companies from 74% at present.