The Budget says that govt. wants to double the income of farmers by 2020.
As per NSSO [National Sample Survey Office], average per head income of a farmer stands at Rs. 1,680 pm as of now. So the target of the govt. is to take this income to Rs. 3,360 pm by 2020. If this is long term planning then God knows how much time is needed for the real effects.
There are many such distressing stats about india. I am no expert to say how it can be done faster. All i am saying is out of 2 options we have, this one is atleast trying.
Spending temporary oil money in various infrastructure stuff for long term growth and hopefully job creation is much better than passing it on for temporary consumption gain. Ofc ideally, taxes will be lower, but a govt needing to fight deficit as well as wanting to invest has to take money from somewhere.
Near about Rs. 80,000 crore has been waived off for corporate defaulters by the present regime. Banks will be recapitalised to give loans again, money will be taken from the economic system. PSB's are acting like white elephants. Tax payers' money is being fed to this white elephant.
This govt. is repackaging schemes of the predecessors and trying to fit in the shoes of the non-performers.
Again, i dont know much in detail about NPA, but
you do realize that this problem is overhang from the last decade? There is Bad management as well as there some distress in Steel/infra companies. many years of subsidy puts electricity boards in so much debt. Do you have any specifics about this 80000 crore that was recoverable and not recovered. We, apparently, dont even have a simple way to file bankruptcy.
The criminal stat is this, as i heard - globally on average 75 % of loans are recovered from bankruptcies. In India this is 25%. You cant blame 2 year govt (solely) for all of this.
How does it matter whose scheme it is ? And why do you assume that the govt is bailing out non-performers? What do you think can be done that the banks are not already doing? All of this mess was hidden before by bad management practices (like evergreening loans) and now RBI has finally put its foot down. I just hope big number of PSB are forced to become private so that govt discretion on these things reduce. Anyway enough talk, have a good trading day ...