Finance Ministry to monitor investments by public and private sector for every quarter

05 Mar 2013 Evaluate

In order to restart the economic growth engine, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on March 4 said that finance ministry will monitor the investment plans every quarter of those public and private sector entities that have huge cash surplus. He said that the whole exercise is aimed at re-starting the growth engine, adding that the economy will grow by over 6 per cent in the next financial year and even higher in the subsequent years.

The Finance Ministry has already issued letters to the PSUs asking them to submit their investment plans for the next financial year. Chidambaram said that the entities would be asked to pay special dividend if they failed to execute investment plans. 

Defending himself and the Government about the recent state of the economy, he said that things started worsening after the global crisis in 2008 and expressed the need to contain the fiscal as well as current account deficit of the country. On the absence of any 'big bang' announcements in the budget, he said that big bang interests only the media, but people want small, critical steps that will restart the growth engine.

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