According to the Engineering Export Promotion Council (EEPC), India’s engineering exports from the country can surpass the $70 billion target in FY15 if 3 percent interest subvention scheme is extended for the entire financial year. Earlier, the government has approved interest subvention of 3 percent to 235 engineering tariff lines and the MSME sector valid till last fiscal ended March 31.
In the view of prevailing wide gap in cost of finance between India and overseas countries, the EEPC has stated that it has become imperative to extend the benefit of interest subvention scheme to this fiscal. Currently in India, interest rate vary between 10.5 percent and 11 percent per annum and with 3 percent interest subvention, interest rates comes in the range of 7.5-8 percent per annum, lowering the cost of credit considerably for sector. The scheme should be extended to the entire engineering sector. Current budgetary allocation on this account is Rs 1,200 crore and an additional amount of Rs 500 crore will cover the entire sector, it added.
Further, EEPC stated that it is the right time for the government to announce such measure as order book position from the US has considerably improved. The US alone accounted for about 15 percent of country’s total engineering exports. Engineering exports, which account for about 20 percent of India's outward shipments, registered growth of 8.49% respectively to $61.61 billion in FY14.
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