Indian economy to contract 10% in FY21: Subhash Chandra Garg

03 Jun 2020 Evaluate

Former finance secretary Subhash Chandra Garg has said the Indian economy will shrink by 10 percent or Rs 20 lakh crore in current financial year (FY21), the first contraction in over 40 years, due to a faulty COVID lockdown. He said that FY21 will go down in the history of India as the year when India got way-laid from its story of three decadal outstanding growth.

Garg further said that the government's Rs 21 lakh crore stimulus package is actually of only Rs 1.4-1.5 lakh crore or about 0.7 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP). Pointing out that India was not in the pink of economic health in FY20, he said the economy grew barely by 4 percent for the year which happens to be the lowest growth rate in last 11 years.

Besides, he termed India's lockdown strategy to contain spread of coronavirus as faulty. He argued ‘the lockdown was imposed under a naive belief that India would be able to eliminate COVID-19 from the face of India in three weeks' time.  India decided to use the brahmastra - total economic and human lockdown - on the entire country when only a tiny part was infected.’

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