India’s GDP to see double-digit growth in FY22: Arvind Virmani

19 Nov 2020 Evaluate

Former chief economic adviser Arvind Virmani has said that India’s Gross domestic product (GDP) is likely to contract 7.5 percent in the current fiscal (FY21) but will see a double-digit growth in 2021-22. He noted that the central government has come up with some noteworthy reforms, including Goods and Services Tax (GST), Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) and setting up of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC).

Virmani lamented that in 2009, he had written that pending reforms must continue if India wants sustained economic growth but that his advise was not followed. He stated that an increase in marginal income tax rates need to be reversed. He also noted that to decrease capital costs, India needs more financial sector reforms.

He further said ‘we need import substitution policy vis-a-vis China and free trade policy vis-a-vis rest of the world.’ He also said that there is a need to increase India's economic competitiveness so that protectionist policies are required less and less.

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