Sitharaman’s budget has some hits but a few misses too
[ad_1] The uppermost issue was how the pressing demands of the two new, politically salient regional coalition partners from Bihar and Andhra Pradesh could be accommodated within the long-standing commitment to a fiscal deficit (FD) below 4.5% of GDP by 2025-26. The FD budgeted for 2024-25 in the final budget, at ₹16.13 trillion (4.9 %…
