Rebooting Economy 64: Budget numbers don't add up to 10% or more growth in FY22 Little attention to direct income support, health and education deprivations, and revival of small businesses will keep the demand and production of goods and services depressed in FY22 Prasanna Mohanty | February 6, 2021 | Updated 18:35 IST Just ahead of the budget, the FY20 growth was reduced from 4.2% to 4%, which will lift the FY22 growth rate True to the trend, the budget for FY22 neither acknowledges nor seeks to address the biggest challenges that the pandemic-induced lockdown brought: massive loss of jobs and businesses, particularly smaller businesses; deepened poverty and hunger and worsened health and education inequalities. (For more read "