Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is expected to meet industry leaders on June 26, to discuss steps to revitalize the manufacturing sector and the slowing economy. This is mainly on the back of GPD registering a nine-year low growth of 5.3% in January-March quarter of FY12, with manufacturing growth stagnating to 0.1% in April and depreciation in the rupee to a record low.
The meeting is likely to be attended by Mukesh Ambani, Anil Ambani, Ratan Tata, Sunil Bharti Mittal and Y C Deveshwar. This would be a follow up of a conference held in August last year to give a boost to the manufacturing sector.
Earlier this month, even Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in an attempt to boost investment in infra space, had met industry leaders, together with key ministers and set an investment target of around Rs 2 lakh crore for core sector projects in the current financial year.
The industrial growth rate remained flat in April recording a growth of just 0.1%, after contracting by 3.5% in March, mainly on the back of poor performance of manufacturing and mining sectors and lower production of capital goods, which is an indicator of investments.
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