India’s growth stabilises between 7-7.5%: Jaitley

05 Apr 2019 Evaluate

Highlighting efforts being taken by the government, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that India’s growth has stabilised between 7-7.5 per cent and irrespective of global trends, domestic consumption is going to increase.

Finance Minister further expressed need to improve the country’s pace of growth, to eradicate poverty. He also said that if India can maintain its position as the fastest growing major economy in the world for the next 10 years, it could become a reasonably middle-income economy, reducing poverty to negligible levels.

Jaitley further underlined tax rates cut done by the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council on consumption items to 12 or 18 per cent from the highest slab of 28 per cent, further adding that lowering rate on cement is next on agenda.

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