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Budget 2026: Experts suggest policy push for Viksit Bharat

Ashutosh Kumar
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January 2026
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This story belongs to the Fortune India Magazine January 2026 issue.

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At Fortune India’s pre-Budget Boardroom, experts discuss strategic policy priorities to accelerate India’s long-term development goals.

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Budget 2026: Experts suggest policy push for Viksit Bharat
(Clockwise from top left): Rishi Shah, partner and economist, Grant Thornton Bharat; Prof. Gourav Vallabh, member, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister; Vineet Agarwal, MD, Transport Corporation of India; Shardul Shroff, founder and executive chairman, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas and Co, and Pranav Haldea, MD, PRIME Database Group. Credits: Sanjay Rawat
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INDIA HAS SHOWN economic resilience with the GDP breaching the 8% level in Q2FY26. The question now is how to make India’s economic growth more sustainable and whether Budget 2026 can play an instrumental role towards that end.

Vineet Agarwal, MD, Transport Corporation of India; Shardul Shroff, founder and executive chairman, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas and Co; Prof. Gourav Vallabh, member, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister; Pranav Haldea, MD, PRIME Database Group; and Rishi Shah, partner and economist, Grant Thornton Bharat, participated in Fortune India’s Boardroom titled “Policy Priorities to Power Budget 2026”. The panel discussed key initiatives required to make India’s journey to Viksit Bharat a success. Edited excerpts: