Govt looking at reforms in FDI, mining, banking, capital market to promote economic activities: Goyal

13 Jul 2020 Evaluate

Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal has said that the government is looking at reforms in various sectors like mining, banking and capital market to promote economic activities in the country. He said the government is also looking to open up foreign direct investment (FDI) in certain sectors where there still are some constraints, foreign investment will be permitted. He said the government is also looking at simplifying domestic approvals and bureaucratic processes to make it easier for industry to do business. He added that the government will soon announce a new industrial policy, with a new forest policy and several other initiatives to promote economic activities in a variety of ways.

Talking about economic revival, the minister said a number of indicators are showing that economic activity has ramped up over the last 30-40 days. He said ‘power consumption is back to 90 per cent, GST tax collection has improved, so, I believe that we will be able to recoup very quickly’. He also said ‘to my mind, we will be able to bring back the economy over the next 3-4 months to last year level and then get rapid growth in the economy.’

Talking about investments in railways, Goyal said both global and Indian companies bid for projects and the electrification of Indian railways. He noted that the 20 GW clean energy programme is going to be bid out and any company from around the world can come in and invest in PPP mode, own the projects and supply the power to railways. He also stated that going forward the Indian railways is opening up new opportunities. He added that it is now open up for bidding 150 routes for private trains.

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