Parliament Panel seeks bold policy initiatives to contain CAD

23 Dec 2014 Evaluate

A Standing Committee on Finance has called for bold policy initiatives including steps to contain rupee depreciation in order to control the current account deficit (CAD) situation. With petroleum prices showing a downward trend, the situation is favorable for bold policy initiatives to maintain the trend of easing of CAD, the Parliament Panel highlighted in its latest action taken report tabled in the Lok Sabha on December 22.

The Parliamentary Panel has noted that unrelenting situation of CAD of the past few years eased a bit alongside fiscal deficit and the government must not lose this opportunity to contain the CAD. Further, rupee depreciation needs to be contained to bridge the CAD-Gross Domestic Product (GDP) divide. Panel report also highlighted that the government needs to take suitable policies to boost the domestic production as well as exports which will help to maintain CAD at an acceptable level of GDP.

India's Current Account Deficit (CAD) for the second quarter of the current financial year widened to $10.1 billion or 2.1% of GDP as against $5.2 billion or 1.2% of GDP in the same quarter the previous year. Increasing trade deficit over the past few months can be attributed the major reason for widening of CAD during the quarter. However, over the first half of current fiscal, India’s CAD remains within RBI’s comfort zone of 2.5 percent of GDP. CAD was recorded at $17.9 billion or 1.9 percent of GDP in H1FY15 as against $ 26.9 billion or 3.1 percent of GDP in same period last year.

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