Director general of economic think-tank NCAER, Poonam Gupta has said that India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is expected to grow around 10 percent during the current financial year (FY22). She noted that the reasons for this perceived optimism are: fewer supply disruptions; increased pent-up demand in the traditional and contact-intensive services; and a buoyant global economy. However, she said the real challenge would be to sustain a growth rate of 7-8 per cent in years to come.
Talking on the challenges being faced by the Indian economy, Gupta said the first one is to recover from the impact of COVID-19 and the second is to sustain post-COVID-19 growth rates of at least 7-8 per cent. She said India has done rather well during the COVID-19 pandemic, primarily because of the rapid pace of vaccination. She noted that currently, ensuring rapid and widespread vaccination is the best pro-growth policy that any country can implement. She noted that India's economic growth surged to 20.1 per cent in the April-June quarter of this fiscal, helped by a low base in the year-ago period, amid a devastating second wave of the COVID-19.
She further said that the Economic Survey 2017-18 had shown that the investment cycles often tend to be long-drawn. Notwithstanding even this cross-country experience, India's downturn in the realm of private investment has been longer drawn than anticipated, as it has now stretched into a second decade.
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