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Freebies: Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra are among top-2 states with highest liabilities

-Livemint.com A PIL said that Indian states have outstanding liabilities of ₹59,89,360 crore as of March 31, 2021 A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court against freebies by state governments. As per the petition, the Indian states have outstanding liabilities of ₹59,89,360 crore as of March 31, 2021, and new sources of risk have emerged in the form of rising expenditure on non-merit freebies. Among the Indian states, Uttar Pradesh and...

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Whose GDP is it anyway? -Praveen Chakravarty

-The Hindu It is time for political leaders to clamour for an overhaul of India’s economic performance measurement framework In a few weeks, a quarterly ritual will play out in India. The Government will release the first quarter’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth numbers with some chest-thumping about how India is among the fastest-growing economies in the world. Opposition parties will hold press conferences on the same day to counter such bombast...

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Poonam Muttreja, executive director of the Population Foundation of India, interviewed by Govindraj Ethiraj (India Spend)

-IndiaSpend.com The United Nations projects that India's total population will surpass China's much sooner than expected, but even so, data show that India's population is actually declining, says Poonam Muttreja of the Population Foundation of India Mumbai: "What could women do if they wanted fewer children? They were opting for, amongst other things, abortion," says Poonam Muttreja, executive director of the Population Foundation of India. "Abortion rates as a proxy for contraception...

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What is the financial position of the 5 states described as stressed by RBI? -Tina Edwin

-MoneyControl.com Bihar, Kerala, Punjab, Rajasthan and West Bengal could face a crisis if they fail to curb non-merit expenditure, the central bank has warned A study of fiscal parameters of states by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) identified Bihar, Kerala, Punjab, Rajasthan and West Bengal as highly stressed due to their high debt levels, the quality of expenditure and the level of fiscal deficit. These states could face a crisis if...

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Over a fourth of MSMEs lost more than 3% market share last fiscal: Crisil -Subhash Narayan

-Livemint.com While the industry Ebitda margin is expected to touch pre-pandemic level this fiscal, MSMEs in more than half the sectors will buck the trend. The performance is also underwhelming in the context of corporate India, which is expected to log a 10-14% increase in revenue and Ebitda margin of 19-20% NEW DELHI: More than a quarter of India’s micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) lost over 3% market share due to...

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