The Minister of State for Finance, Jayant Sinha, has expressed concern about the rupee's appreciation against all major currencies, except the US dollar. He further stated that “As of now, we do have to find a zone for the rupee that prevents obviously inflation, etc., in India - which is one of the things that we are concerned about - but at the same time it doesn’t push out of the zone of competitiveness.” He added that the rupee's 60-65 level against the dollar is a “good zone to be in”.
Separately, the Minister of State for Finance stated that India needs to grow at 7-8 per cent a year to create more job opportunities for young people and double the size of the economy in 10 years. Earlier Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan too had said that India should not settle for anything less than double-digit economic growth in the medium term. Sinha had stressed that Indian economy has potential to become a $ 4-5 trillion economy in the next 10-12 years, adding that it’s great time to invest in India. We are going to take India's $ 2 trillion economy to $4-5 trillion economy in the next 10-12 years.
Indian rupee has been the strongest performing currency in 2014 and was in December last year overvalued by 10 percent compared to a basket of 36 currencies. Recently RBI governor too has expressed his concern over rupee appreciation, though he said that we are perfectly comfortable with where the rupee is. But, going forward, with the massive amount of quantitative easing in the rest of the world, there are possible dangers of us becoming uncompetitive.
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