Wheat is harvested by hand in India. (Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg)
Government spending held up the Indian economy in the April-June quarter when a nationwide lockdown led to a sharp fall in private consumption and investment. But the pattern of government spending also underwent a sharp turn with some ministries seeing a jump in expenditure while others turned austere.Government expenditure made up a fifth of the country’s GDP in the first quarter of FY21, compared with about 15% a year earlier. Spe...