Chief Economic Advisor Raghuram G Rajan, expressed optimism that Indian economy will grow by over 6% during the current fiscal, however highlighted the deteriorated external environment and its impact on the economy. As per Rajan, Indian economy would clock-in a growth rate of 6.1-6.7% this year.
Summarizing the key global issues, Rajan said the sluggish US macro-economic growth, the tensions in Korean peninsula, Cyprus issues in Europe and concerns about the banking systems in some of the peripheral countries have now become the major concerns for the global economy and these issues will remain in the near-term.
However, Rajan was optimistic towards the domestic economy and said that India is watching the external developments of recent weeks and economy’s growth will pick up by the end of the year. Regarding inflation, Rajan said, inflation has been contained at very subdue levels month on month, while the big issue is to bring food prices under control. However, indications are good for the Indian harvest which would help control food prices, he added.
On foreign direct investment (FDI), he said that the FDI takes time to come - so changing the caps will be the indications of the broader directions of the reforms that will be going in and we will look at the FDI very carefully.
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