{"id":398476,"date":"2021-02-02T11:23:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T05:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=398476"},"modified":"2021-02-02T11:23:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T05:53:20","slug":"view-ready-to-tap-indias-deep-reserves-and-get-cracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/view-ready-to-tap-indias-deep-reserves-and-get-cracking\/","title":{"rendered":"View: Ready to tap India\u2019s deep reserves and get cracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman\u2019s plan seems to draw heavily from India\u2019s cricketing triumph in Australia last month. Indeed, India\u2019s economy is poised for an encore, for it has Pujara-like stolidity, Pant\u2019s flamboyance, Ashwin\u2019s agility, the fearlessness of Thakur and Sundar, and Rahane\u2019s maturity.<\/p>\n<p>The budget also comes at a time when there are strong signs that the economy is ready for a V-shaped recovery. GST collections, freight movement, quarterly corporate results, indicators such as the Purchasing Managers\u2019 Index (PMI) \u2014 and the exuberant stock market \u2014 were all chalking record highs. The finance minister\u2019s proposals provide a strong growth stimulus led by substantially higher allocation for spending on infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman\u2019s plan seems to draw heavily from India\u2019s cricketing triumph in Australia last month. Indeed, India\u2019s economy is poised for an encore, for it has Pujara-like stolidity, Pant\u2019s flamboyance, Ashwin\u2019s agility, the fearlessness of Thakur and Sundar, and Rahane\u2019s maturity. The budget also comes at a time when there are strong signs that the economy is ready for a V-shaped recovery. GST collections, freight movement, quarterly corporate results, indicators such as the Purchasing Managers\u2019 Index (PMI) \u2014 and the exuberant stock market \u2014 were all chalking record highs. The finance minister\u2019s proposals provide a strong growth stimulus [&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":[130,193,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398476","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=398476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}