The government is making effort to move towards a low interest rate regime where money is available at a lower rate to entrepreneurs and investors. Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das, while projecting a near-8 percent growth for current fiscal has said that the country is targeting to be a “low-cost economy” by reducing interest rates and transaction cost. He said the Indian economy, continues to be strong and robust given the global economic situation that is prevailing. The economy is estimated to have expanded by 7.6 per cent in 2015-16.
Shaktikanta Das on the sidelines of the ADB Annual meet said that the Indian economy may clock near 8 percent growth in 2016-17 on the back of a good monsoon and added that the main objective of our structural reform policies is two-fold. First is to make India a low-cost economy. Low cost economy not in terms of wages because if you get low wages for your people that's not a very happy thing to happen. He said people should get higher wages so that they could save and spend more. He added that we are targeting to make India a low-cost economy by way of reducing our interest rates, by reducing our tax levels, reducing the cost of logistics and the transaction cost of our economy.
Talking further on reduction of interest rates, he said that the government has been working with RBI, and added that the Finance Ministry and the RBI have entered a monetary policy framework agreement under which the central bank has a particular inflation target and over two years inflation which was earlier in the order of 10 per cent, has been brought down to 5-5.5%.That has enabled the central bank to reduce policy rates, it has also enabled the government to reduce certain government driven savings schemes.
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