India witnessing V-shaped recovery: Finance Ministry

07 Sep 2020 Evaluate

 The finance ministry in its Monthly Economic Review for August has said the country is witnessing a V-shaped pattern of recovery as is seen in various high-frequency indicators. The indicators are auto sales, tractor sales, fertiliser sales, railway freight traffic, steel consumption and production, cement production, power consumption, e-way bills, GST revenue collection, daily toll collections on highways, retail financial transactions, manufacturing PMI, performance of core industries, capital inflows and exports.

It attributed the steep 23.9 per cent contraction of the economy in the June quarter to stringent lockdown that was put in place to curb spreading of coronavirus infections. Among the major economies, India witnessed the steepest decline in the GDP growth in the April-June quarter following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. India enforced the most stringent lockdown as reflected in the Government Response Stringency Index developed by Oxford University. It mentioned US economy contracted by 9.1 per cent while UK and France witnessed a contraction of 21.7 per cent and 18.9 per cent, respectively. Spain, Italy and Germany saw their economies contract 22.1 per cent, 17.7 per cent and 11.3 per cent, respectively, in the June quarter.

The report said Euro area registered a contraction of 15 per cent while Japanese economy contracted 9.9 percent. Relative to these advanced nations, India's GDP contraction at 23.9 per cent is slightly higher.  On the positive side, the report said that stringent lockdown has enabled India to restrain the pandemic-induced death rate to be one of the lowest in the world. India's case fatality rate was at 1.78 per cent as on August 31 as compared to 3.04 per cent in the US, 12.35 per cent in the UK, 10.09 per cent in France, 1.89 per cent in Japan and 13.18 per cent in Italy.

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