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Indian economy to pick-up pace in Q2FY18: Ravi Shankar Prasad

09 Oct 2017 Evaluate

Trying to deflect the criticism arising from the sharp fall in India's gross domestic product (GDP) growth numbers, Union minister for IT and Law and Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that slowdown in the economic growth in Q1 of 2017-18 (April-June) is transitory and that will definitely pick-up pace in the next quarter as the macro fundamentals are strong.

The minister further highlighted that the country posted a 7.5 percent growth in 2014-15, 8 percent in 2015-16 and 7.1 percent in 2016-17. He also noted that only in one quarter that is the first quarter of the current fiscal, GDP growth rate slowed to 5.7%. Attributing the lower growth rates to the shake-up of the economy arising from Goods and Services Tax (GST) rollout, he said “When we build a bridge, we need to divert traffic, which leads to long queues of vehicles. But that is temporary, as things get normalised once the bridge is opened.” He added that just like that, the GST is a new regime which led to a shake-up.

Asked about the timing of the tax cuts announced by the GST Council, which mostly benefit the poll-bound Gujarat, Prasad said that government has always been open to such changes in GST rates as it is not an authoritarian government. Adding further, he said that this is a massive tax reform implemented in such a large country, so, if there is need for changes, why not.

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