Budget 2021: Capital expenditure hiked 34.5% to Rs 5.54 trillion in FY22

 

 


To push growth via infrastructure creation, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday hiked the government's capital expenditure for FY 2021-22 by 34.5 per cent to Rs 5.5 lakh crore.

The government's planned capital expenditure for the current fiscal has been increased to Rs 4.39 trillion, as against the Budgeted Rs 4.12 trillion.
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"Sharp increase in capital budget in BE 2020-21. We have provided for Rs 4.12 trillion for (capital) expenditure. It was our effort that in spite of resource crunch we should spend more on capital expenditure and we are likely to end this year at around Rs 4.39 trillion which we have provided in RE (revised estimate) of 2020-21," Sitharaman said in her 2021-22 Budget speech.

For the next fiscal, the minister proposed sharp increase in capital expenditure and provided Rs 5.54 trillion.

This is 34.5 per cent higher than Budget estimate of Rs 4.12 trillion in 2020-21.



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