{"id":73909,"date":"2025-10-01T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-01T17:28:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T11:58:00","slug":"central-bank-lifts-fy26-growth-forecast-to-6-8-and-cuts-cpi-inflation-projection-to-2-6-amid-strong-monsoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=73909","title":{"rendered":"Central bank lifts FY26 growth forecast to 6.8% and cuts CPI inflation projection to 2.6% amid strong monsoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Central bank lifts FY26 growth forecast to 6.8% and cuts CPI inflation projection to 2.6% amid strong monsoon<br \/>News<br \/>GST<br \/>The central bank revised its FY26 real GDP forecast up to 6.8% and lowered the CPI inflation projection to 2.6%, citing an above-normal monsoon and GST rate rationalisation that should temper inflation while supporting consumption and growth; it noted US tariffs may constrain exports. Quarterly growth is projected at 7.0% (Q2), 6.4% (Q3), and 6.2% (Q4), with Q1 FY27 est<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/highlights?id=93014\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central bank lifts FY26 growth forecast to 6.8% and cuts CPI inflation projection to 2.6% amid strong monsoonNewsGSTThe central bank revised its FY26 real GDP forecast up to 6.8% and lowered the CPI inflation projection to 2.6%, citing an above-normal mon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}