Reacting to the strong September quarter GDP numbers, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said the rise in GDP growth rate to 6.3 percent in the July-September period of 2017-18 signals a reversal of downtrend witnessed over the preceding five quarters.
He added that the deceleration in overall growth witnessed since the first quarter of the last fiscal has been reversed and the impact of two significant reforms -- demonetisation and rollout of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) -- is “behind us”, and the country can now look forward to upward growth trajectory in the coming quarters.
Jaitley further said that India had standardised itself for a growth rate of seven-eight percent. Outlining the economic roadmap for the government, he said “India, in the last three years, for the first time in history, has been the fastest growing major economy and we do hope that in the first instance we evolve into a middle income economy and subsequently graduate into a developed economy.”
Observing that inadequate infrastructure is a major hindrance in the growth, he said if we have to aspire to reach this, India will need to upgrade infrastructure over the next two decades. We need a lot of investment and we will need a lot of spending. He added that the government has been increasingly raising allocation for development of the sector.
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