With the economic growth of India slowing to a nine-year low, both in the March quarter at 5.3 percent as well as in 2011-12 at 6.5 percent, India's chief economic advisor Kaushik Basu expressed an optimistic view on India’s financial growth in his farewell note. He re-emphasized that India is one of the fastest-growing nations in the world and urged it to use current opportunities so as to outperform in the financial year.
Basu committed that the policy reforms were bit slow but affirmed that the country will still register growth at faster pace when compared to other countries. He also pointed out the causes for the slow growth in the last quarter, which were policy inaction, high inflation and interest rates at home and global uncertainty.
He supported Reserve Bank of India's decision in keeping key interest rates unchanged so as to check price rise and also voted its action, which lowered the Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) by 1% to 23%. Though, prescribed partial decontrol of diesel, but opined that the right time has to be decided by the government since drought-like conditions are developing in some states of the country.
Basu by adding further said the eradication of corruption is also inevitable for country’s growth and prospects, while creating other layer of bureaucracy is not the right way of approach.
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