CII stresses on need to cut interest rates by RBI

13 Sep 2012 Evaluate

Apex industry body, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has expressed its deepest concern on the dismal Index of Industrial Production (IIP) figures and asked for early implementation of non-legislative policy measures. It said that continuing slowdown of the industrial sector, with manufacturing growth in the negative territory is even lower than expectations. IIP grew at 0.1 per cent in July, way below the growth rate of 3.7 percent in the corresponding period last year.

The apex industry body while saying that monetary intervention in the form of repo rate cut has been due for a while, stressed on the need to cut interest rates by the Reserve Bank in order to boost the sentiment.

Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII said that it is imperative that non legislative policy measures are announced at the earliest, which could help improve confidence levels in the economy. ‘At this juncture, announcements on FDI, fiscal consolidation, manufacturing policy implementation, etc would be of great help.’

Further, he said that impediment to manufacturing growth such as issues of land, power and business regulatory environment need to be addressed. The manufacturing sector, which constitutes over 75% of the index, witnessed a contraction in output by 0.2% in July, as against growth of 3.1% in the same month last year.

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