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2022-23

India projected to grow at 7% in 2022-23, says Sitharaman at IMF meet

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said that with both the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank having projected India as the fastest growing major economy in 2023, it will stay on course and is projected to grow at 7 per cent in 2022-23 as per the government's own economic survey 2022-23.

Pushes and pulls

The poor, whose existence has been rendered precarious by the pandemic, but who contribute to the growing GST kitty ~ Mrs Sitharaman announced a record collection in January ~ are entitled to ask if sufficient steps have been taken in the budget to widen the social security net.