{"id":1037944,"date":"2026-09-23T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037944"},"modified":"2026-09-23T09:16:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:46:01","slug":"centre-flags-new-fiscal-strains-for-states-from-ageing-ai-climate-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/23\/centre-flags-new-fiscal-strains-for-states-from-ageing-ai-climate-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre flags new fiscal strains for states from ageing, AI , climate risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>States will need to overhaul their spending priorities and strengthen their finances as demographic ageing, rapid technological change, urbanisation and climate risks reshape expenditure demands, according to a background paper the Centre shared with the states over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p>With states accounting for around two-thirds of general government expenditure, the paper said their fiscal capacity, quality of spending and investment decisions would be critical to sustaining growth, building human capital and ensuring inclusive development as India seeks to become a developed economy by 2047.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>States will need to overhaul their spending priorities and strengthen their finances as demographic ageing, rapid technological change, urbanisation and climate risks reshape expenditure demands, according to a background paper the Centre shared with the states over the weekend. With states accounting for around two-thirds of general government expenditure, the paper said their fiscal capacity, quality of spending and investment decisions would be critical to sustaining growth, building human capital and ensuring inclusive development as India seeks to become a developed economy by 2047.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037968,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037944\/revisions\/1037968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}