India Inc uses grim GDP data to call for rate cut
31 May 2013 11:36 PM GMT
Disappointed over GDP growth slumping to decade's low of 5 per cent in 2012-13, India Inc on Friday said that the situation is grim and asked the Reserve Bank of India to cut interest rates to boost economic expansion.
Industry body CII said with no visible pick-up in any key levers of the economy 'the situation remains grim'. While the fiscal deficit situation will not allow government expenditure to go up, every means need to be explored for raising consumption and investment demand, it said.
'CII has been advocating further easing of the monetary policy with a reduction in repo rate and cash reserve ration (CRR),' CII director general Chandrajit Banerjee said.
Ficci said 'low growth in the last fiscal, though anticipated, brings in disappointment and is the least in almost 10 years'.
'Gradual signs of turnaround are visible and a growth in the range of 6.0-6.5 per cent seems attainable this fiscal. The monsoons are expected to be normal and this is definitely a positive signal to begin with,' Ficci secretary general A Didar Singh said.
Assocham said gross domestic product (GDP) growth which has fallen below five per cent in fourth quarter of 2012-13 and growth touching a decade's low of 5 per cent for the entire fiscal are strong indications that the turnaround of Indian economy is still far away. There is a real reason for worry, requiring drastic measures from the government and RBI to cut rates, it said.
Assocham President Rajkumar Dhoot said, ‘while revival is going to be a long-drawn process unlike in the case of 2009, manufacturing revival is critical for the revival of services sector and employment generation.’
Industry body CII said with no visible pick-up in any key levers of the economy 'the situation remains grim'. While the fiscal deficit situation will not allow government expenditure to go up, every means need to be explored for raising consumption and investment demand, it said.
'CII has been advocating further easing of the monetary policy with a reduction in repo rate and cash reserve ration (CRR),' CII director general Chandrajit Banerjee said.
Ficci said 'low growth in the last fiscal, though anticipated, brings in disappointment and is the least in almost 10 years'.
'Gradual signs of turnaround are visible and a growth in the range of 6.0-6.5 per cent seems attainable this fiscal. The monsoons are expected to be normal and this is definitely a positive signal to begin with,' Ficci secretary general A Didar Singh said.
Assocham said gross domestic product (GDP) growth which has fallen below five per cent in fourth quarter of 2012-13 and growth touching a decade's low of 5 per cent for the entire fiscal are strong indications that the turnaround of Indian economy is still far away. There is a real reason for worry, requiring drastic measures from the government and RBI to cut rates, it said.
Assocham President Rajkumar Dhoot said, ‘while revival is going to be a long-drawn process unlike in the case of 2009, manufacturing revival is critical for the revival of services sector and employment generation.’
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