India likely to grow at 7.5-7.6% in 2019-20 with agricultural reforms, interest rate cut: FICCI President

07 Jan 2019 Evaluate

Expressing confidence about the country’s economic growth, newly elected president of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Sandip Somany has said that Indian economic growth is expected to grow at 7.5-7.6% in 2019-20, on the back of agricultural reforms, interest rate cut and credit availability to micro, small and medium enterprises.

FICCI President noted that exports may get hit with uncertainty due to global factors but domestically, except a few months of election, the economy is on a good footing. He also said ‘If interest rates are taken care of and there is availability of credit to MSMEs, then there is enough demand growth.’ He favoured at least a 100 basis points rate cut, underlining that India’s real interest rates are very high.

Further, Sandip Somany praised the various reforms taken by the government such as the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code. Though, he said ‘we need to look at reforms in agriculture to improve our productivity and change the type of agricultural produce we make. We do very little value added products’  and added that farm loan waivers are not a sustainable solution but only temporary patch work to ease farmers’ distress.

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