The Centre’s extra fiscal expenditure this year may only be a fraction of the ₹20 trillion figure declared by our PM for his vision of a self-reliant India.
Even so, it must push that money out There was palpable relief across India as Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared a ₹20 trillion financial package for our corona-crushed economy.
As he said in an address to the nation on Tuesday, this enormous sum of money—about 10% of gross domestic product—would finance the Centre’s latest “self-reliant India" mission, which had been envisioned to draw its strength from five elements.
One, an economy suitably reformed to expand in “quantum" leaps rather than incrementally; two, high-quality support infrastructure; three, a systemic transformation
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