Revival of Indian economy to be sustained if COVID-19 pandemic is under control: Shashanka Bhide

06 Sep 2021 Evaluate

A member of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) -- Shashanka Bhide has said that revival of the Indian economy would be sustained if the COVID-19 pandemic is under control.  Bhide added that prioritising expenditure to get maximum employment and income effects while controlling the pandemic are necessary in the short term. He said high inflation is a crucial concern and macroeconomic stability can be achieved when there is moderate level of inflation.

Further, he said there are clear positive signs given what the economy has suffered due to the COVID-19 pandemic, not only from the direct impact but also the repercussions from the set back to the economies around the world. He noted the positive signs are indeed the recovery in the output levels from the lows that we saw in Q1: 2020-21 and then the fall again during the course of the second surge of the pandemic in April-May 2021.

According to Bhide, given that two of the three months of the first quarter of 2021-22 were in fact peaks for the severity of the pandemic, the economy appears to have managed to learn from the previous experience. The Indian economy grew by a record 20.1 per cent in the April-June quarter, helped by a very weak base of last year and a sharp rebound in the manufacturing and services sectors in spite of a devastating second wave of COVID-19.


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