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Digital capex has a huge multiplier

  • Ravi Pokharna & Kuntala Karkun--BusinessLine
  • published date: 2026-02-16 16:07:29 UTC

While the returns on Digital Public Infrastructure are huge, these are not captured in the Budget

As Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman unveiled Budget 2026-27, public debate gravitated to the usual markers: capital expenditure (capex) scaled up to 12.2 lakh crore, fiscal deficit pegged at 4.3 p… [+6524 chars]