India Budget 2025-26: The Hidden Fiscal Story Behind Non-Tax Revenue & Fiscal Deficit

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TLDRIn this video, the speaker analyzes the budget for FY 2025-26, discussing the key aspects of revenue, fiscal deficit, and government spending. The total revenue has increased, while the fiscal deficit is notably lower than the previous year, standing at 15.68 lakh crores. The speaker highlights the importance of non-tax revenue, particularly from the Reserve Bank of India, which is keeping the numbers stable despite concerns about spending cuts in certain areas, like telecommunication. The link between government expenditures and revenue generation is emphasized, with specific reference to how non-tax revenues are generated through spectrum fees and other sources. Comparative figures from previous fiscal years are used to illustrate the current state and challenges presented by the budget, with a hint towards a deeper analysis in future videos.

Punti di forza

  • 📊 The budget for FY 2025-26 shows a fiscal deficit at 15.68 lakh crores.
  • 💰 Total revenue is increasing, particularly from tax and non-tax sources.
  • 📉 Concerns were raised about non-tax revenue due to decreased spending.
  • 📈 RBI's profits significantly boost non-tax revenue through dividends.
  • 🔍 Telecommunications spending directly impacts non-tax revenue from spectrum fees.
  • ⚖️ The government is managing fiscal health through strategic spending.
  • 📅 Future videos will explore capex spending in detail.
  • 📊 Non-tax revenue is crucial for maintaining fiscal stability.
  • 📰 The analysis combines budget data with real sector implications.
  • 💼 The focus on specific ministries will reveal project priorities.

Linea temporale

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    The recent budget document for 2025-26 reveals an increase in overall revenue, with tax revenue rising from 25.56 lakh crores to 28.37 lakh crores, contributing to a fiscal deficit that is marginally lower than the previous year's revised estimate. The government's efforts to stabilize revenue receipts while maintaining expenditure, particularly in capital projects, were critical in preventing a greater fiscal deficit which is pegged at 4.4 lakh crores, indicating a concerted effort to support economic growth.

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    A significant component of the non-tax revenue comes from dividends and profits, particularly from the Reserve Bank of India, which is expected to contribute 2.56 lakh crores due to high interest earnings. This has helped maintain non-tax revenue around 5.83 lakh crores. However, there are concerns about the sustainability of this revenue as expenditures in certain ministries, particularly in telecommunications, have decreased, leading to worries about the long-term stability of revenue from licenses and spectrum sales.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:17:09

    The budget summary indicates that if certain revenue streams, specifically those linked to the telecommunications sector, don't improve, it could threaten the government's ability to sustain its fiscal deficit targets. Although the government has managed to keep non-tax revenue from declining drastically through creative accounting and reliance on dividends, the potential for increased future spending or revenue shortfalls poses a risk. Further analyses on the upcoming expenditures and capital projects will delve into specifics on allocations and areas of focus for the government.

Mappa mentale

Video Domande e Risposte

  • What is the focus of this video?

    The video discusses the budget for FY 2025-26, focusing on fiscal deficit, revenue receipts, and government spending.

  • How has the fiscal deficit changed from the previous year?

    The fiscal deficit is now in absolute terms lower than the revised estimate of the last financial year.

  • What contributes significantly to non-tax revenue?

    Dividends and profits from the Reserve Bank of India significantly contribute to non-tax revenue.

  • What concern did the speaker have before the budget announcement?

    The speaker was apprehensive about non-tax revenue being at risk due to decreased government spending in certain areas.

  • How does telecommunications spending affect non-tax revenue?

    Telecommunications spending, particularly in the BSNL sector, directly impacts non-tax revenue through spectrum fees and equity returns.

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    Hello friends welcome friends you know
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    that the budget document came out after
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    the budget was announced that which is
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    of25 26 now if you look at the budget
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    summary at glance you will notice that
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    we have they have captured all the
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    numbers right at the face of this
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    document you'll find that the revenue
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    reedt numbers have slightly increased
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    from the total revenue received numbers
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    have slightly increased and the tax
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    Revenue part has increased from 25 lakh
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    CR which is the revised estimate 25.5 6
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    lakh cor to
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    2837 lakh crores and the non- tax part
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    of of of the revised estimate was 5.31
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    lakh crores has increased to 5.83 lakh
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    crots right these together forms 32.2
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    lakh crots now why I'm emphasizing on
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    this particular point because the
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    physical deficit number if you look at
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    the fiscal deficit number it is now in
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    absolute term lower than the revised
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    estimate of last Financial year which is
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    15.69 lakh crores was the number for the
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    last Financial year which is fi25 right
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    so you look at the fiscal deficit number
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    in absolute terms uh this number which
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    is today in absolute term is 15.68%
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    gdv in absolute term which is fantastic
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    right so now the fiscal deficit has been
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    pegged at
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    4.4 lakh cres now in order to bring down
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    fiscal deficit to this level the
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    government of India had to do lot of
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    work lot of work means it had to ensure
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    that its Revenue receipts do not go down
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    and the expenditure that it it does in
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    terms of Revenue as well as capital
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    expenditure especially the capital
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    expenditure part also does not go down
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    otherwise what will happen is it will
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    have a spillover impact on the economic
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    growth though they wanted to bring the
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    revenue expenditure down but it wanted
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    to it prevented the capital expenditure
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    to go down significantly and therefore
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    it is important that the in income part
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    is not drastic was not drastically
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    driven down so before this budget I
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    actually had an apprehension that there
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    will be government is going to face a
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    lot of problem in able to extract and
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    make the non- tax revenue which is
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    roughly around 177% of the total revenue
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    received it is going to struggle to
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    achieve this number 5.83 lakh cores now
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    you may ask why I am basically raising
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    this particular point the reason I'm
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    raising this particular point is you
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    will find it very very interesting and I
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    always try to bring facts which are
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    interesting on the table because General
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    things are all available in the in the
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    marketplace people are already analyzing
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    it now when I take you through one of
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    the uh Ministries budget you will
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    understand that how this non- tax part
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    of the revenue actually had increased
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    initially because of a spending of a
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    particular line item of a particular
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    Ministry now you may be you may be
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    asking a question why spend of of an
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    item of a particular in industry is
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    leading to increase in receipt which is
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    non- tax revenue are you not surprised
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    so let me just show you that this year
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    that Ministry is not spending that much
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    amount of money in that line item
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    therefore I thought that this item non-
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    tax revenue will be at risk but somehow
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    the government has been able to bail
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    themselves out and for that I'm going to
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    take you through the details of non-t
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    tax revenue and map it to that
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    Ministries line items to show you that
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    how in earlier years the spend of on a
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    particular item of that Ministry was
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    leading to these non- tax revenue
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    numbers bumped up so that the tax
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    revenue collection can be shown at a
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    higher pedestal because a fiscal deficit
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    had to be controlled you can't basically
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    show a higher fiscal deficit otherwise
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    people will get scared right our economy
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    is going to lose people will lose
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    confidence in our economy so let's go
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    into the the details of non- tax revenue
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    which is pretty important tax part we'll
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    talk later but non- tax revenue is very
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    very important is roughly 17% of the
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    total receipt Revenue receipt so here is
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    the receipt budget which gives us the
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    details of non- tax revenue you will
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    find that non- tax revenue has various
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    components one is interest received
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    which is not very high because if you
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    look at the interest R it around 47 K
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    cres right what was the number of
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    non-tax Revenue which we saw we saw it
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    around 5.83 lakh cres right so FIS this
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    particular item the first item is not
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    very significant and it had been
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    maintained in that level which which has
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    got slightly increased not very much
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    right then comes one important item
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    which is so important that you'll you'll
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    without it which non- tax revenue part
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    cannot be managed what is that dividend
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    and profits and this dividend profits
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    especially coming from Reserve Bank of
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    India The Reserve Bank of India is
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    giving dividend to the government
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    because of higher profits that it is
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    able to earn because of high interest
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    rates especially in Us and other part of
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    the because it invest its foreign
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    exchange or the amount of money that
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    holds in us and where if you are getting
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    an higher interest rate because the US
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    Bond rates were higher this leads to a
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    higher income so this year also Reserve
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    Bank of India is going to give a a in uh
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    income to the government in terms of
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    profits to to the tune of 2.56 lakh CR
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    so this is very significant because of
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    this the uh non- tax revenue actually
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    has been able the government has been
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    able to maintain that non- tax revenue
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    to the level that we see today and which
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    has been able to drive fiscal deficit
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    numbers lower so the total interest and
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    received on because of dividend profit
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    dividend profit comes from two two
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    places one is the public sector and is
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    Reserve Bank of India so it is it is
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    higher than what it was was earlier by a
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    number roughly around 50 k crots right
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    so this is so this this number and this
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    number is also high so together if you
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    see that because no actually these two
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    numbers added together is this number so
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    it is around 50k cres right then comes
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    the fiscal Services which is very very
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    less so you can ignore it now comes the
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    services all type of services we have
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    got General Services then we have got
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    Social Services then you have got
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    economic services and then we have got
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    down below Railway Revenue which just
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    get subtracted Ned out and then the
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    total Services is right here down below
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    and you can see that the total Services
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    numbers have actually dipped you can see
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    that the number has actually dipped from
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    earlier here here is where the problem
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    was and problem is today why this number
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    has actually dipped because the number
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    was for the budget year budget estimate
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    for fi 2 was
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    182 uh 1.82 lakh cres and then revised
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    number is 1.74 lakh cres now it is lower
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    by lower it it is lower which is 1.58
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    lakh crores now why this number was
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    higher in these in these years in these
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    years and why it is lower and how this
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    number was able to keep the non- tax
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    revenue numbers higher so as to have a
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    lower fiscal deficit it is important to
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    understand that for that I'm going to
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    take you through the uh budget document
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    or the expenditure pattern of Ministry
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    of Department of telecommunication Do's
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    expenditure now you will understand what
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    is going on now if you look at Do's
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    expenditure this is also following a
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    camel kind of curve can you see this it
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    actually has see if you look at in
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    200000 uh f522 the actual spend was 13
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    uh 7K cores then in
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    2023 the number went the Revis estimate
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    number was 81k CRS and then in fi 25 uh
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    24 the number went up to 98 K cors and
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    then in in fi 20 25 the revised estimate
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    number is 1.24 lakh crores and then
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    suddenly the number went down right can
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    you see that it is went down but this
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    time this year the spend which the
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    department of telecommunication is doing
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    is only how much it is 81k crores almost
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    at far with what it did revise estimate
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    in fi23 now you may ask why Department
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    of telecommunication is spending less
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    why it was spending earlier so high
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    though BSNL network is the major
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    component of is the capital inflation in
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    BSNL Network so you'll see that the the
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    as the BSNL invest investment or the
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    spend was increasing right the uh the
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    spend for Department of
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    telecommunication expenditure also
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    increasing it all depends on BSNL as you
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    see that the BSNL number for fi25 was 82
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    83 83 kods right you see 83 kods and it
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    has slightly dipped and then this year
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    it is 33.7 K cores and that's why it has
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    brought the number down so this Capital
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    infusion of BSNL actually plays a very
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    very important role in non- tax revenue
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    and people will not believe that why
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    because a large portion of this this
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    value this number is actually uh for
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    spectrum so when the government of India
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    uh India issues Spectrum to BSNL the
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    BSNL gives back the value of the
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    spectrum to the government of India in
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    terms of equity and that Equity is shown
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    by the government of India in terms of
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    non- tax revenue this is the non- tax
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    revenue right you see this non- tax
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    revenue now where is this number
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    captured let's look at this number then
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    only we will be able to map right what
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    is going on so you look at when you go
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    to this item economic Services right
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    which is a significant part of the non-
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    tax revenue which I showed you so this
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    is the economic Services total economic
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    services and in the revised estimate the
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    number was 1.74 lakh cres now it has
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    gone down to 1.58 lakh crores now in
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    this line item one important line item
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    which you will notice is this line item
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    other Communication service now other
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    Communication Service is what other
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    communication Services is the income
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    that the government of India is drawing
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    from mainly from the Telecom sector now
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    here a major portion of this income
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    comes from license fee Spectrum fee and
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    auction fee auction
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    collection and this on top of this the
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    equity that BSNL is giving to the
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    government when spectrum is granted to
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    them the equity that the government of
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    India gets from BSNL is added to this
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    number and that is why if you look at
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    this number suddenly has gone down from
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    1.23 lakh crores to 84 82.4 lakh sorry
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    82 1,000 cres because the industry
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    revenue is increasing right industry
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    actually is growing you know if you look
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    at the Telecom industry the revenues are
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    growing therefore the license fee and
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    the Spectrum fee is also going def
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    payment of auction is still going to be
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    there as it was there was a moratorium
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    so there is no impact on that so if you
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    look at these numbers these numbers
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    actually should have remained stable or
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    should be increasing why it has dipped
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    here
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    now right so you should get this
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    question why the other communication
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    Services collections of the government
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    in terms of non- tax revenue has
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    decrease that is why this number this
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    total number which I basically was
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    talking to you in the initial stage of
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    non- tax revenue which we saw in the
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    summary document of 5.83 lakh crores was
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    at risk if this if the government of
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    India was not able to collect huge
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    amount of money money from dividend and
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    profits which it is collecting right now
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    its non- tax revenue numbers would have
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    dropped because of lack of spending in
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    BSNL mtnl in terms of notional numbers
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    which is mainly Spectrum right so that
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    is what the key point is so government
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    has been able to bail themselves out on
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    this number because of why because the
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    dividend and profits have delivered well
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    RBI is going to give the government good
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    amount of dividends and the public
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    sector is also give good dividends to
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    the government and that is why this
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    number is much higher than what is the
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    revised estimate not much higher but
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    Higher by 50k and then there are other
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    items in the general Services which has
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    bailed the government if you look at you
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    know it add all added up for example if
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    you see that uh uh the administrative
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    Services total administrative Services
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    The Collection was uh you know the
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    estimated collection is 26k cres from a
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    revised estimate of 17K cres right then
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    if you go down below uh you'll find that
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    so there is nothing here uh you know the
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    total collection if you add this General
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    Services is from 21k cres has increased
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    to 33k cres so the government of India
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    has able to make money from General
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    Services Social Services numbers have
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    increased from 64 6
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    6,400 cres to 11 k cors right and
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    economic Services number have decreased
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    from if you see decreased from
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    174 uh 1.74 lakh cres to 1.58 lakh
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    crores mainly on account of the reason
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    which I told you other Communication
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    Service and government of India has been
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    able to somehow bump up his revenue and
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    they were able to prevent a sharper dip
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    here if it was a sharper dip then the
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    non- tax revenue would have
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    significantly be under risk so this
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    number has not gone down significantly
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    and then there is a small amount of
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    Grant in it and if you look at this
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    number the number actually looks very
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    very
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    respectable that has been able to drive
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    our fiscal deficit number to a value
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    which is quite respectable and we should
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    be quite happy with it because in
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    absolute term this number is lower than
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    the revised estimate for the last year
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    so friends I will not go you know more
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    deeper in this particular video I wanted
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    to capture this issue very clearly so
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    that people understand that there are
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    certain things in the budget which are
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    notional in nature which are both you
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    know scapic which are both in spend as
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    well as captured in earnings which kind
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    of gives a little bit of you know how do
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    I say this it it it can be called as
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    something which is not real so there and
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    that has to be managed in order to
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    ensure that you know things go don't go
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    aier because of a certain change in
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    numbers in near future because
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    government doesn't have to give more
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    Spectrum to BSNL and therefore
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    government will not be able to get more
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    Equity from BSNL which they cannot show
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    in non- tax revenue tomorrow I will do
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    subsequent video and going deeper into
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    capex spend of the government how it has
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    changed how the government of India has
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    been able to make its capex spend number
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    still higher and where they have seen
  • 00:16:23
    dip and then I'm going to go
  • 00:16:26
    specifically into Ministry especially
  • 00:16:28
    the do and the ministry of Information
  • 00:16:30
    Technology to understand that which
  • 00:16:33
    projects the focus of the government of
  • 00:16:35
    India is and that will give us a flavor
  • 00:16:38
    that what kind of uh projects like you
  • 00:16:42
    know AI or make in India P where the
  • 00:16:45
    government of India has focused and
  • 00:16:48
    where the max money is getting ped right
  • 00:16:50
    so we'll come back with with that
  • 00:16:52
    analysis tomorrow and I'll end this uh
  • 00:16:55
    this video You Know by thanking you for
  • 00:16:58
    watching to the end I'll come back with
  • 00:17:00
    a new video next time uh tomorrow
  • 00:17:03
    morning I'll do a detailed video on the
  • 00:17:05
    topic which I I just mentioned thank you
  • 00:17:08
    very much
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