Budget 2020 India: Speaking to reporters, alongside Sitharaman, after a meeting of the RBI board in New Delhi on Saturday, Das too had said the government had largely remained within the deficit road map set by the FRBM Act.Union Budget 2020 India: A day after Reserve Bank of India governor Shaktikanta Das sought to allay fears of the Budget proposal on fiscal slippage causing a spike in inflationary pressure, finance minister Nirmala Sitaraman reiterated on Sunday that the Budget FY21 hasn’t violated the fiscal discipline.
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Addressing a gathering of industry representatives in Hyderabad, she said, “We have not really breached the FRBM. We have not gone outlandish on it. We have kept fiscal discipline, which is a USP for both the Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Narendra Modi governments.”Speaking to reporters, alongside Sitharaman, after a meeting of the RBI board in New Delhi on Saturday, Das too had said the government had largely remained within the deficit road map set by the FRBM Act.
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Acknowledging that the FM hadn’t really succumbed to the temptation to launch a fiscal stimulus to pump-prime the economy, former RBI governor D Subbarao wrote in The Indian Express on February 12, “ It has long been known that the true fiscal deficit is higher than what the government’s books show. To her credit, the finance minister took a step towards transparency by admitting to off-balance sheet borrowings of 0.8% of GDP for both the current and next fiscal years — acknowledging that the fiscal deficit would actually be higher at 4.6 per cent and 4.3 per cent of GDP respectively. This is already excessive. Add to this the unrealistic projections of revenue growth and disinvestment proceeds for next year and we have a potentially unsustainable fiscal situation. Any stimulus on top of this would have been clearly unwarranted, and for many reasons”.Invoking an escape clause, the Budget for FY21 proposed to inflate fiscal deficit by 50 basis points for this financial year and the next to 3.8% and 3.5% of GDP, respectively, amid a sharp cut in the corporate tax rate and a shortfall in revenue mo-up following a broader economic slowdown.
On the Budget, Sitharaman said several novel measures have been initiated to address the demand side and allocations have been made to enhance consumption.
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