Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that India may surpass the Britain (UK) to become the world’s fifth largest economy in 2019 on account of growing consumption and strong economic activity. He highlighted ‘This year, in terms of size, we have overtaken France. Next year we are likely to overtake Britain. Therefore, we will be the fifth largest (economy)’. 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.
The UK economy stood at $2.94 trillion at the end of 2017. India recorded a growth of 6.7 per cent in FY18 and expected to accelerate to 7.4 per cent in the current financial year on pick up in industrial activity and good monsoon. The minister further added that other economies in the world are growing at much lesser rate and India has the potential to be among top three economies of the world in the next 10-20 years.
Besides, the Jaitley highlighted that in the last four years the economy has witnessed a series of reforms under the Modi government, both legislative and otherwise. He also said the economy has been able to come a long way, after the UPA's wrong decisions had let to high inflation, high fiscal deficit, high current account deficit, a standstill infrastructure, power sector and allocation of natural resources.
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