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Friday, December 12, 2025
TopicConsumer spending

Topic: Consumer spending

Consumer Price Index gets up to date. Airfare, OTT plans, e-commerce prices in new basket—MoSPI secy

New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.

Why the poverty line is a misleading measure of progress

If poverty was ending, we would expect people’s spending to reflect that. But data shows the opposite.

India ‘barely ahead of others’, but shouldn’t be in race with other large economies, says Ajit Ranade

If India wants 8% growth, private investment will have to substantially pick up, Ranade explains. But that can happen only if demand improves, which is contingent on wages increasing.

Modi govt is changing rural India. They are spending differently from MGNREGA era

The highlight of Household Consumption Expenditure Survey 2022-23 is that the share of rural households' expenditure on cereals has fallen below 10% for the first time.

SubscriberWrites: One Lifestyle, Two Incomes- Welcome to New India

Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation’s Household Consumption Expenditure Survey 2022-23 puts the average MPCE in rural India has been Rs. 3,773 and in urban India has been Rs. 6,459.

Here are 5 key takeaways from Household Consumption Expenditure Survey 2022-2023 highlights

Other key findings include spending on food falls in expenditure of rural households in 11 years. Report made after survey of 2.76 lakh-plus households across country.

Subdued growth in household consumption & rural sales but companies optimistic of gradual pick-up

Data in light of Advance GDP Estimates presents mixed picture of sales of passenger vehicles, improvement in indices capturing primary, capital & intermediate goods production.

Why Indians are racking up huge credit card bills — stagnant or shrinking incomes, higher spending

New Delhi: A combination of stagnant or decreasing incomes, rising expenditure, a profusion of credit cards and ‘Buy Now-Pay Later’ (BNPL) offers has resulted...

Clothes, cars & travel: Festive season spending surge despite inflation woes, global slowdown

Early data indicate sales would include nearly $15.2 billion offline sales & $11.8 billion online sales on platforms like Amazon, based on Redseer, a market consultancy.

Signs of green shoots with 48% Indians willing to spend on renovation, travel, survey finds

'Mood of the Consumer' survey by LocalCircles finds 10% consumers are planning to spend over Rs 50,000 while 21% will spend between Rs 10,000-50,000 on discretionary purchases.

On Camera

IndiGo cancellations made TV news do the unexpected — question the Modi government

Republic TV was the harshest of them all: “The (civil aviation) minister has done a bad job,” said prime time anchor Arnab Goswami.

IndiGo’s profits dipped, most airlines sunk into losses last fiscal even as flier numbers soared

Despite growing passenger volume, 11 out of 14 carriers reported losses in 2023-24. IndiGo recorded profit of Rs 8,167 crore, which reduced to Rs 7.253 crore in 2024-25.

Dubai Tejas crash revives focus on advanced, fully automated safety systems

Dubai airshow crash & pilot death have rekindled concerns over pilot safety, and need for smarter automated systems that can step in when G-forces, temporary loss of consciousness hit the pilot.

Asim Munir & Pakistan’s Failed Marshal Doctrine

None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.