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Lending rate of 14-15 per cent will make India uncompetitive: Jaitley

04 Aug 2017 Evaluate

After the RBI cut the interest rates by 25 basis points, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that lending rate of 14-15 per cent will make India uncompetitive in the global market and industry cannot invest at such higher interest rates. He said at a time when inflation was running high at 10 per cent bank deposit rates were high at 9 per cent. But loans were extended by banks at 14-15 per cent interest rate and with such high interest rates global industrial investments will not come in.

Jaitley added that Interest rates will 'slowly' become 'reasonable' and the government has taken steps to offer stable interest rates to investors so that they are not lured into chit fund schemes, which attract investors by offering a meagre 1-1.5 per cent interest rate higher than what is given by banks. He also said that the government insurer LIC has come out with a pension scheme to offer fixed rate of interest to investors.

The finance minister defended the largest public sector lender State Bank of India's decision to cut interest rate on saving accounts of less than Rs 1 crore, saying the move was in sync with reduction in lending rate. Further adding that high interest rate on savings and fixed deposits was during a time when inflation was 10-11 per cent and sluggishness was setting in the economy. So when the lending rate came down, so did savings account.

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