Govt to focus on reviving manufacturing sector: Jaitley

29 Dec 2014 Evaluate

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, while emphasizing upon the need to arrest slowdown in growth and radically improve the investment environment, asserted that manufacturing sector, which is the backbone of Indian economy, still remains a challenge and that entry point into the sector should be eased for the betterment of the economy.

He highlighted the need of more changes and reforms with favorable impact for the sector. The finance minister also emphasized the need of government putting its house in order to accelerate growth in manufacturing, while pointing that the last 2 years saw economic slowdown. India has registered sub 5% economic growth for two successive years and is still recovering from its worst slowdown since the 1980s.

He however, expressed confidence that growth would be better this year. The Indian economy grew by 5.3% in the September quarter from a year earlier and is expected to grow 5.5% in the current financial year that ends on March 31.

In a major cause of worry for the government that has completed seven months in office, manufacturing growth has been volatile with factory output contracting by 4.2% in October. The government, hence is majorly banking on a revival in the investment cycle and its ‘Make in India’ campaign to reverse the manufacturing contraction cycle.

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