With marginal improvement seen in industrial output and exports, the Commerce Minister Anand Sharma has said that the worst is over for the economy and along with others has also pitched for lower interest rates to spur investments. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is slated to review the monetary policy on March 19.
Sharma said, ‘we do hope that the downturn that we have seen has bottomed out, hope that next year will be different from last year. We will see more foreign direct investment coming... we feel our exports will definitely grow and GDP will grow above 6% in FY 2013-14.
However, on rising inflation numbers, Sharma said, it remained a matter of concern, though non-food inflation has moderated and said, the government is in favour of the industry getting access to cheap credit. However, the apex bank has the autonomy to take its decisions, but the need of the economy is more investments and dollar credit window.
The Indian Inc for long has been demanding a cut in repo rate to help revive India's sagging GDP growth that hit decade's low of 4.5% in the third quarter of 2012-13.
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