CII comes up with 10-point economic revival plan; targets 7.5% growth for FY13

06 Jun 2012 Evaluate

In its attempt to revitalize the dwindling growth in Asia’s third largest economy, industry body Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has come up with a 10-point measures for economic revival that include monetary, fiscal and administrative actions. The industry body is of the belief that the government has to come out of the policy paralysis and take strong actions cohesively to avoid further deterioration the economy.

Expressing their concerns over sharp slowdown in GDP growth in the fourth quarter, CII felt that various measures like fast-tracking the implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST) and simplifying foreign direct investment (FDI) regulations along with lifting FDI caps in the aviation, retail, defence and insurance sectors would be imperative for the economic revival.

The body also batted for strong monetary stimulus measures from the Reserve Bank of India and called for sharp reduction in both repo rates and CRR. It also supported the idea that government must take serious efforts to correct the current account deficit by encouraging exports and containing imports, arresting rupee slide, reducing subsidies, implementing financial sector reforms and removing bottlenecks in infrastructure growth.

Targeting an economic growth rate of 7.5% for the current financial year 2012-13 and 9 percent in 2013-14, the body expressed confidence in the nation’s growth potential and avowed that it is not impossible to achieve higher growth rates, provided the government takes corrective and timely measures to support the economic recovery.

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