{"id":989413,"date":"2026-02-03T07:35:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989413"},"modified":"2026-02-03T07:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:12:11","slug":"view-budget-2026-27-gung-ho-on-investments-tight-on-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/03\/view-budget-2026-27-gung-ho-on-investments-tight-on-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"View: Budget 2026-27: Gung-ho on investments, tight on deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a year marked by trade wars, geopolitical tensions and a continued rewiring of global supply chains, the easiest path for any government would have been to loosen fiscal discipline for short-term stimulus. But the budget delivers a calibrated strategy of maintaining consolidation while pushing investment higher. <\/p>\n<p>The fiscal deficit estimate tightens to 4.3% of GDP for FY27, down from 4.4% in FY26 RE. At the same time, capex allocation rises by 11.9%, and effective capex allocation (including grants to states) rises by 22%. Holding this course reflects good governance in keeping macroeconomic fundamentals intact, when external pressures create incentives to do otherwise. GoI&#8217;s message: India will invest aggressively, but without reckless borrowing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a year marked by trade wars, geopolitical tensions and a continued rewiring of global supply chains, the easiest path for any government would have been to loosen fiscal discipline for short-term stimulus. But the budget delivers a calibrated strategy of maintaining consolidation while pushing investment higher. The fiscal deficit estimate tightens to 4.3% of GDP for FY27, down from 4.4% in FY26 RE. At the same time, capex allocation rises by 11.9%, and effective capex allocation (including grants to states) rises by 22%. Holding this course reflects good governance in keeping macroeconomic fundamentals intact, when external pressures create incentives [&hellip;]<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989413","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=989413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}