The Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said that the Government aims to bring down current account deficit (CAD) to about 2.5 percent of the GDP by March 2017. While attending the 46th annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Ahuluwalia said that the Government is making efforts to bring down the deficit in a phased manner and planned to finance the CAD through foreign direct investment (FDI), portfolio inflows and marginally through debt.
Ahluwalia also expressed the need to channelise domestic savings into long-term infrastructural projects. Regarding the financing of infrastructure projects, he said that high fiscal deficit would pose a challenge to mobilise a lot of financial savings for infrastructure financing. He said that the Government always prefers borrowing in its own currency, so there is a need to create an environment that confirms the easily availability of domestic debt and the institutions such as ADB and other multilateral bodies can play a useful role in making available funds for infrastructural projects.
Meanwhile, the government has cleared that the fiscal deficit for FY13 will be better than the estimated 5.2% as an overall tax collection of over Rs.10.38 lakh crore has been achieved. The CAD, which occurs when a country's total imports of goods, services and transfers are greater than its exports, had reached an all-time high of 6.7 percent of GDP in the third quarter of FY13.
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