India's economic growth momentum to continue in Q3 of FY24: Nageswaran

01 Dec 2023 Evaluate

Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran has said India's economic growth momentum will continue in the October-December quarter of current financial year (Q3FY24) and the economy is poised to comfortably clock a 6.5 per cent growth rate for the full fiscal (FY24) underpinned by investment and consumer momentum. He said India is underestimating its GDP growth while forecasting a 6.5 per cent expansion for the full fiscal as is evident from the tax buoyancy that the country is witnessing on the back of high tax revenue collection due to strong corporate and bank balance sheet.

He stated ‘When you have a tax buoyancy which is as high as 1.9 or close to 2, which is historically unprecedented, then it is quite possible that we are not measuring the economy's underlying momentum… We will keep the GDP growth estimate for the full fiscal at 6.5 per cent but we are more comfortable (with the projection) than before. We need to work out the impact of second quarter numbers on full fiscal. The momentum of economic growth will continue in the third quarter as well.’

Talking about the second quarter (July-September) GDP growth numbers which came in as a surprise at 7.6 per cent, he said the Indian economy is maintaining a steady momentum since recovery from Covid and remained the fastest growing major economy in the July-September quarter as well.


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