Industry body Assocham has said that India’s fiscal situation may worsen due to rising inflation, decline in economic growth and global slowdown. Expressing its views on deteriorating macro-economic indicators, it said that due to little margin for taking another counter-cyclical fiscal measures, India’s faltering growth coupled with unresponsive inflation can push the country economy to a worse situation.
Assocham said that continued uncertainty amid global economic conditions and widening infrastructure deficiencies are the major challenges for India’s growth story. It also added that with the expectation of public finances remaining in great stress, fiscal deficit may even touch 6.1 percent of GDP in the current financial year; if appropriate action is not taken in time then India is likely to be in situation worse than the one in 1991.
Industry body has recommended that current account deficit needs to be financed through external capital inflows because the government funding of the deficit through domestic sources tends to cause inflation. By adding further it said ‘Deviation from the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act (FRBM) Act by the Government has resulted in deteriorated fiscal health of the public finances’. According to it, the existing industry and business conditions suggests that there would be a likely shortfall in gross tax revenues by around Rs 60,000 crore in the current fiscal.
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