Indian economy to soon back on rails as all parameters show improvement: Tarun Bajaj

04 Nov 2020 Evaluate

Finance Secretary Tarun Bajaj has said that Indian economy is recovering fast and will soon be back on rails as all the parameters have started showing improvement. He said ‘we are actually seeing an improvement in all parameters generally and we are expecting further improvement in the month of November and this should continue. Hopefully the economy should be back on rails and it is moving much faster than what had been anticipated by a lot of experts and economists’.

Bajaj said ‘we continue to see an uptick in the economy since the past few months since the opening up of the economy and the manufacturing PMI has touched 58.9, which is the highest in the last decade’. He noted that the power consumption in the month of October is 12.10 percent more than October 2019, which is a signal of economic activity. Similarly, he said the value of E-way bills has gone up almost 19 percent in the month of October, it is valued at 16.82 lakh crore and the railway freight is up by 15.5 percent in September and almost 14 percent in October. He added that average daily toll collection is up by almost 120 percent. So basically these are signals of economic activity going up.

Finance Secretary further indicated that the GST collection has touched Rs 1.05 lakh crore, almost 10 percent higher year-on-year. The FPI inflow is about $3.2 billion in October as compared to some negative figure for September. The number of issues in the capital market have gone up. He also pointed out that credit growth has seen some improvement by registering a growth of 5.8 percent in October as compared to 5.3 percent in September. He said ‘the FDI during April-August is $35.73 billion...external sector remains robust, our foreign reserves have touched almost $560 billion’.

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