In an attempt to improve global investment sentiment and counter perceptions that the government is in policy paralysis, India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called upon a meeting of key infrastructure ministries and set ambitious targets as he rooted for infrastructure led economic recovery. After the meeting with ministers of power, railways, roads, shipping, civil aviation and coal, Manmohan Singh set an investment target of at least Rs 2 lakh crore for core sector projects in the current fiscal.
Though he admitted that after achieving remarkably fast growth rates in the last decade and emerging as the second-fastest growing large economy in the world, the economy ran out of steam because of global economic and geo-political turbulences. However, Prime Minister remained hopeful that Asia’s third largest economy would revert back to high growth trajectory of 9 percent expansion rate.
Monmohan Singh also opined that the government was not only aware of the challenges that are faced by the economy, but it is also taking crucial efforts to bolster the economy by creating an atmosphere which is conducive to investment and to removing any bottlenecks to growth. He also stated that there is need to revive business and investor sentiment and give a thrust to investment, both public and private.
He also vowed to remove the supply constraints that affect industry and trade. Emphasizing that India requires investment of over $1 trillion in infrastructure in next five years, he explained that government would not be able to invest this huge amount and hence high importance is being given to Public- Private-Partnerships (PPPs).
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