India can emerge as world’s fifth largest economy next year: Arun Jaitley

13 Jul 2018 Evaluate

A day after the World Bank ranked India as sixth largest economy in the World, Union Minister Arun Jaitley has said that the country can emerge as the world’s fifth largest economy next year, if it continues to grow at current pace. He further added that Indian economy is in a stable condition but there is need to more focus on eliminating agrarian distress.

Arun Jaitley further recommended a uniform set of agriculture related policies to benefit farmers and double their income, noting that government’s recent hike in the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for farmers will reduce farmer distress that was rampant last year.  He also underlined a crucial role played by a National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) in shaping the agriculture sector.

Besides, Jaitley mentioned about the government’s continuous focus in improving the country’s rural infrastructure.   Further, Union Minister pointed that studies have shown that states which focused on the agriculture sector to help increase farm income have been re-elected and those who neglected this sector, have not come back to power.

The World Bank in its latest report stated that Indian economy has now become world’s sixth-biggest economy in 2017. The country pushed France to the seventh spot and ranked ahead of several European Union (EU) states. India’s gross domestic product (GDP) was valued at $2.597 trillion at the end of 2017 overtaking French economy, which was amounted at $2.582 trillion last year.

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