Plan Expenditure

It is now just a week to the Union Budget and this time it will grab more attention for the model changes that the government has either announced or will ring in besides tackling the usual subjects of tax concessions and financial grants.

Telangana presents tax-free Budget

Telangana government today presented a tax-free budget for 2016-17, proposing a total expenditure of Rs 1,30,415.87 crore.

Budget 2016: FY17 Plan spending up 15%, FY16 expenditure too hiked by 2.6%

It has been a practise for some years to cut budgeted Plan expenditure at the revised estimate stage to keep a tab on burgeoning fiscal deficit.

Budget 2016: FM announces plan expenditure at Rs 5.5 lk cr

The higher allocation is on account of the implementation of One Rank One Pension (OROP) and 7th Pay Commission

Budget 2016: India on strong wicket despite global crisis, says Jaitley

Jaitley said CPI inflation has fallen to 5.4 percent despite two years of monsoon shortfall. He also said GDP growth has risen to 7.6 percent during the NDA government's tenure

Stocks cheap; govt spending to boost growth: Credit Suisse

Even as Indian equities have looked slightly expensive on price-to-earnings basis, they are still cheap on a relative basis when compared to global markets and have further scope to expand, according to Credit Suisse India Equity Strategiest Neelkanth Mishra.

Budget 2015-16: Higher Plan expenditure seen on low fuel subsidy, says IDFC

IDFC expects food subsidy increase to Rs 12,500 crore from Rs 11,500 crore in FY15, and fertilizer subsidy to decrease to Rs 55,000 crore from Rs 77,000 crore on the back of lower international prices

Budget Reactions: Budget punctures market hopes, says Udayan

Union Budget is a non-event for the market and not worthy of the expectations that P Chidambaram might have stoked in his commentary in the past.

Kotak cuts FY13 GDP forecast to 5.1%; sees slow recovery

Brokerage house Kotak Securities has cut its forecast for FY13 GDP growth to 5.1 percent from 5.6 percent earlier, after the government on Wednesday estimated the figure at a decade-low of 5 percent

Union Budget 2011: To raise Plan expenditure by 18.35%

The government today proposed to increase the Plan expenditure for 2011-12 to Rs 4,41,546.75 crore, up 18.35% from the Budget estimates for the current fiscal.