<h1>Senior finance official urges industry to invest, scale capacity year-round and partner with government on workforce skilling</h1> A senior government finance official urged domestic industry to increase investment, expand capacity and engage year-round with the government, not solely before budget cycles, and called for private-sector partnership on workforce skilling. The official cited recent reforms, tax measures, FDI liberalisation and elevated public capital expenditure - including a Rs 11.21 trillion capex target for 2025-26 and a 33% year-on-year rise in early fiscal capex - while noting private investment remains below public capex and is forecast to decline in FY26, particularly outside MSME clusters.