{"id":267303,"date":"2025-07-17T00:43:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=267303"},"modified":"2025-07-17T00:43:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:13:31","slug":"the-difference-in-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/the-difference-in-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"The difference in numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chief Minister Pema Khandu has said that the state has witnessed economic transformation over the past decade, with the Gross State Domestic Product recording a 166 percent increase between 2014 and 2024-25.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to him, the number of Goods and Services Tax (GST) taxpayers has gone up by 141 percent since 2017-18, while per capita income has risen by 105 percent since 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The state has also seen a 731 percent increase in GST collection since the implementation of GST in 2017-18. The state&#8217;s own resources have surged by 384 percent between 2014-15 and 2024-25, while budget allocations for the state have grown by 218 percent between 2015-16 and 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The numbers certainly seem impressive, but how much of these figures have translated into real, on-the-ground impact is anyone&#8217;s guess. With rising unemployment and no structured support for young people to pursue self-employment opportunities, frustration is growing among the youth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Add to that the abysmal condition of government health and education facilities and the lack of access to basic connectivity, and it&#8217;s clear that the state still has a long way to go if it truly is growing at the pace that is being claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Minister Pema Khandu has said that the state has witnessed economic transformation over the past decade, with the Gross State Domestic Product recording a 166 percent increase between 2014 and 2024-25. According to him, the number of Goods and Services Tax (GST) taxpayers has gone up by 141 percent since 2017-18, while per capita [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-267303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editorial"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}