Niti Aayog’s economic agenda for next govt to focus on boosting private investments: Kumar

23 May 2019 Evaluate

The think tank's Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar has said that Niti Aayog is working on the economic agenda for the next government where the emphasis will be on achieving long term sustainable growth and boosting private investments in India. He said “the basic thing is that we need to take steps to increase private investments in the economy. That's a real issue and to increase the private investment, it requires greater access to credit for small and medium enterprises (SMEs).'

According to him, the economic agenda might also pitch for extending labour subsidies to textile and leather sectors to reduce cost of production. He also said that cost of capital in India is quite high, which needs to be brought down, and there is also a need to create a land bank owned by public sector undertakings so that private investment can be attracted.

Highlighting that India could potentially hit double-digit growth rates by 2022, Kumar said a good foundation for such a trajectory has already been laid in the previous five years. He also observed that during this period, there has been unprecedented macro stability as well as an average annual growth of 7 percent growth. Noting that the government has done enough in last five years to be now ready to take that few steps to ramp up growth to 9 percent, he said 'I think, that by fiscal 2022, we should be able to get there (double digit growth).' For the current fiscal ending March 2020, he expects Indian economy to record a growth of around 7 percent.

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