Sitharaman exhorts India Inc to ‘quickly’ step up capex to push growth

07 Feb 2022 Evaluate

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has exhorted India Inc to take advantage of announcements made in Budget and ‘quickly’ step up capex so that the virtuous cycle of investment gathers momentum. She said increase in capex in the Budget was done with twin objectives of supporting sustained growth and crowd in private investment. She asserted that this is the right time for investment and industry should not lose this opportunity. She said ‘Post the pandemic with all the reshuffling happening, reset happening in the ways in which you do your business and also with that step of October 2019 in which that one condition was please start reducing by March 2023 is also now extended by one more year’.

Stressing that many sectors have been opened up, she said there are immense opportunities in the sunrise sectors and New Age sectors like bulk drugs vaccines, and genome. Do sit back and calmly take a call. India needs all the expansion in capacity and it is that which is going to kick off the virtuous cycle. She said ‘I would just want to green flag those areas before you and call upon the industry to quickly join and help the virtuous cycle to gain traction. The government has not given up its investment in infrastructure and that's going to have a bearing on the core industries directly and soon’. The government has hiked public investment by as much as 35.4% to Rs 7.5 lakh crore or 2.9 per cent of the GDP in the Budget 2023-24.

She urged industry not to lose this opportunity for India to reach a higher level of industrialization and manufacturing in India. She added ‘India fits into that very well and industry should take advantage of this global shift’. On the issue of rural distress, she said that the same was being addressed in multiple ways. The budget has enabled access to tractors and other farm equipment through rentals as well as making credit available. On the privatisation of the two public sector banks and one general insurance company, as suggested in last year's Budget, she said the government is committed to taking forward the announced privatisations.

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