Fortune India Magazine - February 2023

In this issue

Budget Special:
Meanwhile in finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s fifth Budget, India’s vastly successful formula since the Covid-hit year 2020 to keep the nation’s economic engine firing through loads of capital expenditure on infrastructure remains at the heart of Union Budget 2023 as well. This time Centre’s capital expenditure sees an astounding 33% hike to `10 lakh crore This Budget will be remembered for its ‘Long Vision’, for the tenacity to resist the temptation to be populist in the last full Budget before General Elections in April next year. It will be remembered for responsible fiscal management and for sticking to what will work to India’s advantage in the long run rather than myopic, bank-busting moves that had become the norm for governments serving the last year of their term. Fortune India explain why the big moves in the Budget prove that long-term vision outwitted short-term populism to put India on a path of growth and prosperity in a sea of global economic slowdown.
Other than Budget, there are other interesting reads too. One such is, the first inside account of the remarkable changes that are transforming the Tata Group to be future-ready. N. Chandrasekaran, chairman of group holding company Tata Sons, sat down with Fortune India at group headquarters Bombay House over cups of Starbucks coffee to explain how he is pivoting the 154 year old group. Such, that it will sport a renewed look a few years hence.