Govt’s stimulus measures to support business sentiment but headwinds to drag growth: Moody's

28 Aug 2019 Evaluate

Amid raft of measures announced by the government to boost the sagging economic growth, Moody's Investors Service has said these measures will provide some support to investors and business sentiments, and the acceleration of the capitalization of public sector banks to help improve the provision of credit and transmission of monetary policy easing. It said that the measures announced were an effort to stimulate slowing economic growth.

Though, it also said domestic and external headwinds to persist over the course of the year, resulting in 6.4% real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in the fiscal year ending in March 2020. It added that growth rate will pick up next fiscal year to 6.8%. Recently, Moody's had revised downwards India's GDP growth forecast to 6.2% for 2019 calendar year from its previous estimation of 6.8%.

In order to revive growth momentum, the government had announced a raft of measures, including rollback of enhanced super-rich tax on foreign and domestic equity investors imposed in the Budget, exemption of startups from 'angel tax', a package to address distress in the auto sector and upfront infusion of Rs 70,000 crore to public sector banks. Also, it said Goods and Services Tax (GST) filing will be simplified further to meet the GSTN to remove further glitches in the system.

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