{"id":287025,"date":"2019-08-13T04:37:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T04:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=287025"},"modified":"2019-08-13T04:39:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T04:39:00","slug":"govt-must-raise-expenditure-on-infra-focus-on-rural-income-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-must-raise-expenditure-on-infra-focus-on-rural-income-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt must raise expenditure on infra, focus on rural income: Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Industry players and experts want the government to raise its expenditure on infrastructure projects, elevate rural disposable incomes, address the crisis of non-banking financial companies, and prod banks to cut interest rates to put the economy back on track. <\/p>\n<p>Mohit Malhotra, chief executive officer, Dabur India, said there was a liquidity crunch in rural areas, leaving little money in the hands of the rural consumer, affecting consumer staples. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf government spending and a stimulus package can be provided to rural areas, they will go a long way in reviving consumer demand and growth in the sector,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industry players and experts want the government to raise its expenditure on infrastructure projects, elevate rural disposable incomes, address the crisis of non-banking financial companies, and prod banks to cut interest rates to put the economy back on track. Mohit Malhotra, chief executive officer, Dabur India, said there was a liquidity crunch in rural areas, leaving little money in the hands of the rural consumer, affecting consumer staples. \u201cIf government spending and a stimulus package can be provided to rural areas, they will go a long way in reviving consumer demand and growth in the sector,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287025","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}