Action against every loan defaulter may hurt economic activity: Nitin Gadkari

03 Jul 2018 Evaluate

Raising need to support genuine decisions that aim on driving entrepreneurship, Union minister Nitin Gadkari has said that taking action against every defaulting entrepreneur may hurt economic activity and will also prevent people to take initiatives. He also noted that times ahead are full of uncertainties.

Union minister further listed various suggestions such as need to distinguish between bona fide and mala fide intentions which would have made an entrepreneur to default, need to look into extraneous factors like business cycles or global situations and need to fund bona fide corporate even after their accounts turn NPAs. He alsosaid that one should not cast doubts on every action of bankers, too, noting that “How can the economy go ahead if there are such actions?'

Besides, Gadkari said that one should also forgive if the mistake is bona fide, and act sternly if any mala fide intent is observed and further noted that it is very important for the judiciary to function ‘within limits’ and avoid action for the democracy to flourish. He further said that economic policy-making needs to be ‘justification centric’, rather than getting stuck as being either people- centric or farmer-centric.

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