{"id":280663,"date":"2019-07-06T06:01:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T06:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=280663"},"modified":"2019-07-06T06:01:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T06:01:44","slug":"budget-2019-funds-for-infrastructure-may-be-hard-to-find-for-govt-here-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/budget-2019-funds-for-infrastructure-may-be-hard-to-find-for-govt-here-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2019: Funds for infrastructure may be hard to find for govt \u2013 here\u2019 why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the private sector left with limited cash flows, the government struggling to mop up revenues and household savings slowing, local funds for India\u2019s ambitious infrastructure build-out will be hard to come by. But it\u2019s not just the lack of resources that is stymieing investments. The business environment today is so unfriendly \u2014 regressive taxation, inflexible labour laws and miles of red tape \u2014 it\u2019s no surprise new project announcements crashed to a15-year low in June.<\/p>\n<p>The Economic Survey has predicated India\u2019s growth on a revival in investments but while measures may be taken to deepen the long-term market for bonds, resources and a Credit Guarantee Enhancement Corporation may be set up, it will be a while before these yield results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the private sector left with limited cash flows, the government struggling to mop up revenues and household savings slowing, local funds for India\u2019s ambitious infrastructure build-out will be hard to come by. But it\u2019s not just the lack of resources that is stymieing investments. The business environment today is so unfriendly \u2014 regressive taxation, inflexible labour laws and miles of red tape \u2014 it\u2019s no surprise new project announcements crashed to a15-year low in June. The Economic Survey has predicated India\u2019s growth on a revival in investments but while measures may be taken to deepen the long-term market for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,197,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}