Indian economy to get back to 8-9% growth trajectory soon: President

12 Mar 2012 Evaluate

The Indian economy is expected to get back to its 8-9% growth trajectory soon given its strong long term fundamentals as per the President of India, Pratibha Patil. While addressing the joint session of Parliament on first day of the budget session, the president stated that the government plans to achieve a 9% annual growth target in the five-year plan period ending on March 31, 2017.

She observed that though growth has slowed down to 7% this fiscal, it is still healthy given the global trends. As per Patil, the Indian economy is backed by strong fundamentals like high domestic savings and investment rates, favourable demographics, and stable democratic polities which will help bring it back to its earlier growth of 8-9%.

She also recounted the government’s efforts made to contain price rise like the intervention by the Reserve Bank of India in terms of rate cuts and government‘s measures to ease the supply constraints, like reduction in import duties and a calibrated ban on exports.

The economy grew at an average rate of more than 9% between 2005-06 and 2007-08. The growth rate fell to 6.7% in 2008-09 on account of global financial crisis, but recovered the momentum to 8.4% in 2009-10 and 2010-11. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who will present the budget on March 16, is expected to set a target of 7.5-8% economic growth for the 2012-13 fiscal beginning on April 1.

She further stated that the government is committed to working on five most important challenges faced by the Indian economy. She described the first challenge as livelihood security, the second as economic security, the third as ensuring energy security, the fourth challenge as realizing development goals without jeopardizing ecological and environmental security and the fifth as guaranteeing internal and external security.

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