{"id":2148,"date":"2026-02-01T11:35:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T11:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2026-02-01T11:35:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T11:35:39","slug":"indias-2026-budget-emphasizes-infrastructure-domestic-industry-amid-global-strains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/2026\/02\/01\/indias-2026-budget-emphasizes-infrastructure-domestic-industry-amid-global-strains\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s 2026 Budget Emphasizes Infrastructure, Domestic Industry Amid Global Strains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has presented India\u2019s 2026\u201127 budget, focusing on higher infrastructure spending and measures to boost domestic manufacturing as global trade tensions rise. The budget forecasts a slight slowdown in GDP growth for the coming year amid the impact of new U.S. tariffs, while maintaining a path of fiscal restraint.<\/p><p>Key announcements include a 9% increase in capital spending to \u20b912.2 trillion ($133.1 billion), a more than 20% rise in defense outlays, and strategic support for seven sectors including semiconductors, data centers, textiles, and rare earths. Incentives include a tax holiday until 2047 for foreign cloud companies investing in Indian data centers and dedicated rare\u2011earth corridors in four states. The government also shifted its fiscal target from a rigid annual deficit to a debt\u2011to\u2011GDP ratio goal of around 50% by 2030\u201331, aiming for greater spending flexibility. Markets reacted negatively to a hike in the Securities Transaction Tax on derivatives.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has presented India\u2019s 2026\u201127 budget, focusing on higher infrastructure spending and measures to boost domestic manufacturing as global trade tensions rise. The budget forecasts a slight slowdown in GDP growth for the coming year amid the impact of new U.S. tariffs, while maintaining a path of fiscal restraint. Key announcements include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-india-en"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2150,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions\/2150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}