India's strategy of dealing with Covid-19 paid off, economy set to bounce back: Ficci

02 Nov 2020 Evaluate

The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) President Sangita Reddy has said that India's strategy of dealing with the coronavirus disease (covid-19) pandemic has paid off and the country's economy is set to bounce back and emerge stronger. She said it was time to take bold actions and push the growth agenda vigorously. She also said the dilemma for governments across the world was creating a balance between protecting lives and livelihoods. India took the path of a strict lockdown to ramp up health infrastructure and focused on human lives and this strategy has paid off.

Reddy observed that science evolved to give better cures, medical infrastructure was created, supplies like PPEs ramped up and death rate has been contained. She noted that it's clearly time for bold actions on the livelihood front. The recent monetary policy assures that the government and the regulator will do everything it takes to keep the economy afloat. She said ‘let us start pushing our growth agenda vigorously.  As we can see the initial green shoots of recovery have begun’.

She noted that the PMI for manufacturing and services has recovered to 56.8 and 49.8, respectively in September 2020. Besides, there has been a pick-up in e-way bill volumes, improvement in revenue earning freight traffic of major commodities, positive growth in exports, and most significant increase in the September GST collections to almost pre-COVID-19 level. She added that these incremental trends are heartening and need to be sustained, and further initiatives like the consumption vouchers must continue to remain focused on demand generation.

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