India’s economy to start witnessing growth of 6.5 to 7% from fiscal 2023 onwards: CEA

19 Jul 2021 Evaluate

Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) Krishnamurthy Subramanian has said that India’s economy will start witnessing a growth of 6.5 to 7 percent from fiscal 2023 onwards, helped by various reforms undertaken by the government so far and also as COVID-19 vaccination drive progresses. He said the second wave of COVID-19 is unlikely to have a very significant on the economy. The country's economy contracted by 7.3 per cent in fiscal 2020-21.

Subramanian said the momentum in recovery that was seen in the fourth quarter of FY21 and overall in the second half of FY21 got impacted to some extent by the second wave of COVID-19. While the second wave was quite devastating on the health side, he said the economic impact of that has been limited because the second way was much shorter in duration compared to the first wave and the economic restrictions that were placed were primarily at the state level.

CEA said the supply-side reforms undertaken by the government in sectors such as agriculture, labour, export PLI scheme, change in MSME definition, creation of the bad bank, privatisation of public sector banks among others, are going to push growth in the future. He said vaccination is important for the country to recover from the pandemic and to convert COVID-19 into effectively the common flu and reduce its impact significantly.  

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