Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, in his keynote address at the day-long conference 'Deepening the US-India Commercial Partnership: The First Year of the Modi Government', while acknowledging that high growth was essential to meet the challenges posed by the country's burgeoning young population, highlighted that India very much had the potential to achieve 9-10% growth rate which could be its “new normal”.
Pitching India’s growth story, Finance Minister Jaitley while listing out the steps being taken by the new Indian government like giving more financial powers to states, increased investment on infrastructure, emphasis on manufacturing, underscored that the roadmap laid out was to attract more foreign investment.
Further, the minister also asserted that implementation of the landmark Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime proposed from April 1 next year would push India's GDP by 1-2%. However, he did accept that land reform bill had become a contentious issue in India.
Nevertheless, the minister emphasized that his government was trying to bring down the period in opening up new projects and had also set up a new committee to look up into the whole mechanism of how, whole institution of prior permission can be refurbished into regulatory mechanism, where it is far easier to start your business just complying with the guidelines that have been stated in that area.
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