Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that India has large avenues of growth to sustain a gross domestic product (GDP) rise of 7-8 percent for two decades, unlike any other country in the world. He also said that obstructionist ideas and technology naysayers need to be smashed and quick decision making would help India stay on higher growth trajectory. He said that “Developed economies have very fewer avenues of growth. We still have very large avenues of growth. …. India’s largest impact on the world over the next 2 decades will be on the strength of consumption”.
The minister has indicated that the Indian economy grew at a rate of 8.2 percent in the April-June quarter of current fiscal on good show by manufacturing and farm sectors. It grew at 6.7 percent in 2017-18. He said that “When you have a consumer base of this kind, your middle class will become larger than the population of any other country other than China. And therefore every investor is compelled to come to you, and are expected to put in money into the country.”
Jaitley further said that the path ahead for India is to shun obstructionists who had become so used to of India living in poverty. He said that “Why must you have EVM, let’s go back to paper, why must you have digitisation let’s go back to cash currency, why must you have Aadhaar, let’s have manual way of checkng. So the obsolete thinking in these areas need to not only defeated but smashed.”
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