Govt determined to take India on high growth path: Niti Aayog CEO

04 Feb 2020 Evaluate

Terming the Union Budget pragmatic, Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said the government is determined to bring Indian economy back to a high trajectory growth path. He further said if the government will be able to achieve disinvestment target of 2020-21 then the Budget will be very successful. He noted that the budget pushes for public private partnership (PPP) in many areas and it lays lot of emphasis on AI, quantum computing, roadmap for infrastructure sector. However, he said the major challenge of the Budget will be reviving animal spirit and credit flow.

Niti Aayog CEO has stated that the finance minister has laid emphasis on macro-economic stability. For an economy to grow at 8-9 percent, he said animal spirit of the private sector is necessary. He also stressed that India's $3 trillion economy can't grow only on the back of investment by public sector. On disinvestment, he the government is on tract as far as stake sale in BPCL, CONCOR and privatisation of Air India is concerned. He added that the government aims to garner Rs 90,000 crore from the listing of LIC and stake dilution in IDBI Bank in the next fiscal (FY21) out of total disinvestment target of Rs 2.10 lakh crore.

Kant said ‘in the next month or so we will be accelerating pace of disinvestment in some of big PSUs. We will push limits on disinvestment of PSUs. We will put out another six airports for bids in the next month or two...We are also trying to put out some power grids and gas grids.’ Noting that India is a difficult place for greenfield investments, he said, but it is an attractive destination for brownfield investments where projects are already been constructed and there are low risks.

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