Fiscal Deficit

September 13, 2024

Non-BJP states to sustain anti-BJP fight. Second Conclave of FMs in Bengaluru

Kerala hosted the first Conclave of Finance Ministers to thrash out ways to secure from the 16th Finance Commission the fair demands of states suffering under what has been termed as the fiscal authoritarianism of the Centre.

UNION BUDGET '24

July 23, 2024
Union Budget: Centre reduces fiscal deficit target to 4.9% of GDP for FY25

The fiscal target was part of India's federal budget, announced on Tuesday by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
March 13, 2024
Financial package: Kerala rejects Centre's Rs 5,000-crore offer, demands Rs 10,000 cr

The Supreme Court had asked the Centre to consider providing a one-time package to the State government by March 31 to deal with its financial issues.
UNION BUDGET '23

February 01, 2023
Fiscal deficit to be brought down below 4.5% by 2025-26: Nirmala Sitharaman

She also said that tax receipts for the next fiscal are budgeted at Rs 23.3 lakh crore and states would be allowed 3.5 per cent of GDP as fiscal deficit.
January 18, 2023
Will Kerala be forced to shrink KIIFB's size? Balagopal hints at the possibility

Last fiscal, the state's own revenue had increased by Rs 17,000 crore.
January 17, 2023
States' fiscal health improves, debt-GDP ratio remains high: RBI report

The fiscal health of the states has improved from a sharp pandemic-induced deterioration in 2020-21 on the back of a broad-based economic recovery and resulting high revenue collections.
January 03, 2023
Explained | Is Centre squeezing Kerala dry as finance minister Balagopal claims?

Balagopal wants the LDF government to be seen as the victim of the BJP's authoritarian tendencies.

Fiscal Deficit

Non-BJP states to sustain anti-BJP fight. Second Conclave of FMs in Bengaluru

Union Budget: Centre reduces fiscal deficit target to 4.9% of GDP for FY25

Financial package: Kerala rejects Centre's Rs 5,000-crore offer, demands Rs 10,000 cr

Fiscal deficit to be brought down below 4.5% by 2025-26: Nirmala Sitharaman

Will Kerala be forced to shrink KIIFB's size? Balagopal hints at the possibility

States' fiscal health improves, debt-GDP ratio remains high: RBI report

Explained | Is Centre squeezing Kerala dry as finance minister Balagopal claims?

GDP growth halved to 6.3% in Sep quarter of current fiscal

April-June fiscal deficit narrows amid fall in subsidies

Govt to use revenue surge to fund welfare drives, focus not on fiscal deficit target