New Delhi: The steps of the government relief launched on Monday could not leave a large fiscal dent, despite higher subsidized bills for food and fertilizer, previously announced, estimated to produce several slippage.
While the government set the impact of a series of steps at least below the 6.3 lakh crore Rs, it refrained from providing estimating the cost of string steps.
However, economists are not wise in showing that these steps will create contingent obligations in the form of guarantees, with the impact on muted expenditure.
The maintenance ratings estimate additional expenditure by the center is more than Rs 1.5 lakh Crore, which is close to RS 1.1 Lakh Crore because of food and fertilizer subsidies.
Among the announcements conducted on Monday, the center will chip with RS 15,000 Crore to improve public health infrastructure, while there will be additional outgo under 10,000 crore rs this year on broadband initiatives for rural areas.
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“The fiscal impact of the announcement made today and previously not linear because most of the packages are contingent obligations.
Ignore this, the direct impact will be slightly more than Rs 1.23 lakh crore, which will be around 0.6% of GDP,” said Soumya Kanti Ghosh, Bank State of Indian Group Economic Advisor.
The body of the Head of the Chief of Economist Aditi Narggah estimates it at Rs 60,000 Crore, after eliminating the guarantee scheme and the announcement made previously.
The calculation of the treatment of the fiscal deficit estimate of 7.7-7.8% of GDP, against the government budget estimation of 6.8%, has also taken into account the possibility of lack of income – either tax and disinvestable – because of the second covid wave.
However, the government, the government remained optimistic at the Income Front, with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told the last month that the center was on the disinvestment training path.
In addition, he believed that the direct tax collection so far this year and GST mop-up has not been significantly hit by locking in several states in April and May.
Furthermore, Bonanzas as the RBI in the form of a higher surplus transfer is expected to be useful in bridging gaps.
Covid Relief: There is no big fiscal dent
