FM pins hope of restricting fiscal deficit to 2% of the GDP

07 Jun 2012 Evaluate

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, despite expressing his concern about the low GDP, higher current account and fiscal deficit number, has reiterated that restricting fiscal deficit to 2% of the GDP is achievable and pinned his hopes that with moderation in inflation the economy will once again be back to its high growth path.

The finance minister has stressed that the fundamentals of the country’s economy are strong and there is no need of panic even if there is slowdown in the GDP. After registering 8.4 per cent growth in last year, India's GDP expansion slowed to nine-year low of 6.5 per cent in the last financial year and it was meager 5.3 percent in the fourth quarter of last fiscal. He expressed his faith in the resilience of the Indian economy that it will recover despite continued global uncertainty.

Emphasizing the importance of Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunals (DRTs) in financial crisis he pointed that there can be no lending unless there is recovery. Finance Minister has also expressed his concern on the issue of non-performing assets (NPAs) and said that it needs to be addressed on priority basis. The NPAs of public sector banks increased to about 3.3 per cent of the assets in 2011-12 as against 2.3 per cent a year ago. 

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