Vaccine hesitancy rife in rural TN despite rising cases
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Lack of awareness, fear of side effects prevent many from immunisation
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C. Venkatesan (right), a resident of Bodipatti village, showing the mark on his arm where the vaccine shot was administered while his wife R. Kalavathi (left) and daughter V. Sathya have not taken the shots ner Udumalpet in Tiruppur district. File
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Lack of awareness, fear of side effects prevent many from immunisation
Despite the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic raging through the country with the number of cases rising everyday, vaccine hesitancy continues, preventing many from ensuring their safety.
India is likely to breach its fiscal deficit target in the financial year to March 2022 mainly due to revenue shortfall, Fitch Solutions said Friday. The government is targeting a deficit between revenue it earns and what it spends at 6.8 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP) in FY22 (April 2021 to March 2022). We at Fitch Solutions forecast the Indian central government deficit to come in at 8.3 per cent of GDP in FY22, it said. Revenue shortfall remains the main driver of our wider deficit view, as we expect the government to maintain its spending targets.
Fitch Solutions had previously projected a fiscal deficit of 8 per cent.
Synopsis The main driver of our deficit forecast revision is a downward revision to our outlook for revenues, given that the flare-up in COVID-19 cases in India and containment measures in place will hamper India s economic recovery, which will have a negative impact on fiscal revenues, Fitch Solutions said.
One area expected to see increased spending is on the rural employment scheme MGNREG.
India is likely to breach its fiscal deficit target in the financial year to March 2022 mainly due to revenue shortfall, Fitch Solutions said Friday.
The government is targeting a deficit between revenue it earns and what it spends at 6.8 per cent of the GDP in FY22 (April 2021 to March 2022).
India may breach fiscal deficit in FY22 amid revenue shortfall, says Fitch
The government is targeting a deficit between revenue it earns and what it spends at 6.8 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP) in FY22 (April 2021 to March 2022)
PTI | May 7, 2021 | Updated 14:42 IST
India is likely to breach its fiscal deficit target in the financial year to March 2022 mainly due to revenue shortfall, Fitch Solutions said Friday. The government is targeting a deficit between revenue it earns and what it spends at 6.8 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP) in FY22 (April 2021 to March 2022). We at Fitch Solutions forecast the Indian central government deficit to come in at 8.3 per cent of GDP in FY22, it said. Revenue shortfall remains the main driver of our wider deficit view, as we expect the government to maintain its spending targets. Fitch Solutions had previously projected a fiscal deficit of 8 per cent.
Assam Assembly elections | Welfare measures not a decisive factor
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Not many households benefited from schemes launched by the State government
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Huge win: BJP supporters celebrating at the party s State head office in Guwahati on May 2, 2021. | Photo Credit: Ritu Raj Konwar
Not many households benefited from schemes launched by the State government
Contrary to popular wisdom and what was reported in some sections of the media, the Lokniti-CSDS post-poll survey data does not find welfare schemes to have been a decisive factor for the National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) performance in the Assam Assembly election. The survey indicates that not many households benefited from the State government’s welfare programmes. This was highlighted when the names of at least nine schemes launched by the State government were read out to the respondents upon being asked if they or a household member had benefited from any of these schemes, nearly h