{"id":11691,"date":"2026-05-02T12:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T06:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/capital-expenditure-government-to-sustain-capex-despite-west-asia-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T12:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T06:42:14","slug":"capital-expenditure-government-to-sustain-capex-despite-west-asia-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/capital-expenditure-government-to-sustain-capex-despite-west-asia-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital Expenditure: \u2018Government to sustain capex despite West Asia crisis\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130708747,imgsize-26866,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/untitled-design-25.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018Government to sustain capex despite West Asia crisis\u2019\" title=\"&lt;p&gt;Representative image&lt;\/p&gt;\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: While acknowledging possible stress due to the West Asia conflict , expenditure secretary Vumlunmang Vualnam Friday said that the Centre will prioritise capital expenditure and seek to ensure that the entire allocation for public spending is utilised.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>\u201cThe fiscal stress is indeed very much a reality, but at the same time&#8230; the capex will really be a priority item, which we would like to preserve and ensure that it continues at the budgeted level,\u201d Vualnam said at a conference organised by the Isaac Centre for Public Policy at Ashoka University.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Highways, railways, shipping, ports, and urban development were flagged as the focus areas for capex during the current fiscal year. Govt has budgeted for Rs 12.2 lakh crore capex this year.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/business\/india-business\/government-to-sustain-capex-despite-west-asia-crisis\/articleshow\/130708723.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: While acknowledging possible stress due to the West Asia conflict , expenditure secretary Vumlunmang Vualnam Friday said that the Centre will prioritise capital expenditure and seek to ensure that the entire allocation for public spending is utilised.\u201cThe fiscal stress is indeed very much a reality, but at the same time&#8230; the capex will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}