Asian Development Bank (ADB) is looking to increase exposure in India, especially in infrastructure, skill development and urban services, and proposes to increase lending to the country by almost half to $12 billion by 2018 (from nearly $3 billion a year to $4 billion a year). ADB will focus on supporting the government’s new initiatives, including Make in India aimed at boosting manufacturing, Skill India aimed at training young people to enter job market.
ADB president Takehiko Nakao after a meeting with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu said that 'ADB aims at increasing its sovereign and non-sovereign lending from the present $7 billion-$9 billion in three years from 2015 to 2017 to $10 billion-$12 billion between 2016 and 2018 using ADB`s expanded lending capacity.' Nakao expressed support to initiatives such as Make in India, Skill India, Clean India and smart cities and said that the government might face some difficulties in carrying out reforms such as those related to labour, there is tremendous people's support for these initiatives to spur growth. ADB would assist the government in the smart cities project in Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Maharashtra.
India is ADB`s largest borrower, with 189 sovereign loans totalling $31.3 billion approved till date. ADB has also made 50 non-sovereign loans, equity investments, and guarantees totalling $3.6 billion. ADB had projected India to grow 7.8 per cent in the current financial year, higher than the 7.5 per cent predicted by other multilateral lenders such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. It would be announcing revised growth projections for the current fiscal year in July.
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