Budget 2024 aims to foster economic stability and growth: Neelkanth Mishra
«So, all of these contours or making India a product nation, these perspectives I think were very useful from the budget as well. Some of the clarity, the fleshing out of these medium-term plans should start becoming visible,» says Neelkanth Mishra, Chief Economist, Axis Bank.
Let us just begin then with the overall outlook this time around with respect to the Budget and the finance minister clearly retaining the FY25 capex target at about 11.1 lakh crore rupees. How do you believe that one should be reading into the fine print?
Neelkanth Mishra: This was the first budget of a new government, so there were two major asks from it or at least two major signals that we were all looking for. One was will the direction of the fiscal maths change? There was I think apprehension among some quarters that the government because of the election verdict would change its stance, so at least on the budget arithmetic it is very clear that the government sticks to the focus on macroeconomic stability on a very relentless focus on bringing down the cost of capital over the medium term and I think some of those changes will start becoming visible in the next year or two.
The second big message through the budget speech because as the first speech it gives a signal on what the government's priorities will be over the next five years and those again lay the roadmap for simpler taxes, simpler duties, focus on urbanisation, focus on infrastructure development, energy security.
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