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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Govt. Squeezes Spending, Even Though Tax Collections Have Increased -Subodh Varma

Govt. Squeezes Spending, Even Though Tax Collections Have Increased -Subodh Varma

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published Published on Nov 14, 2021   modified Modified on Nov 15, 2021

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Modi government has restrained spending of various ministries including education, social justice, environment and others.

Continuing with its policy of cutting down spending, the central government has spent only 47% of the budgeted amount by the end of September 2021. That’s half of the financial year 2021-22 gone. This is a new low (see graph below), and bizarrely, it comes at a time when tax revenues have picked up.

As can be seen in the graph, derived from data made available by the Controller General of Accounts (CGA), pre-pandemic years usually showed up expenditure of about 53% during the first half (April to September) of financial years. In 2020-21, spending had dipped slightly to 49% of the budgeted amount. This was the year when the pandemic hit India, and several months saw complete or partial lockdowns that affected economic activity.

It would be natural and logical for any government to step up spending in dire circumstances when the economy is stuttering, unemployment is rife and private investment is flagging. However, the Modi government had kowtowed to the wisdom propagated by Western banks and rating agencies that government should control its spending, reduce the gap between income and expenditure (fiscal deficit) and thus allow the private sector to step in freely. The government has been under such a pervasive influence of this discredited theory that in the current financial year (2021-22), it has squeezed spending even further.

In case you think there is not much of a difference between 50% and 47%, here is what it means: the total budgeted estimate of spending for the current year is Rs.34.8 lakh crore; so, the 3-percentage point difference works out to just over Rs.1 lakh crore. That amount would make the difference between life and death if invested in, say, distribution of food grain to needy people, or in giving more work under the rural job guarantee scheme, or ensuring rapid double-shot vaccination to all people.

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Newsclick.in, 14 November, 2021, https://www.newsclick.in/govt-squeezes-spending-though-tax-collections-increased?fbclid=IwAR3Noeg7BaoWAeyMN-W7chHbKnzWtJYvPNvWa1txP0rcr4XVip6hQxztofg


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