India’s fundamentals intact, slowdown temporary: PM

29 May 2013 Evaluate

Expressing confidence over India's fundamentals and terming the fall in economic growth a temporary slowdown, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that India’s basics are intact and the country will revert to 8% growth path. Economic growth in 2013-14 will improve to around 6% from the decade's low of 5% witnessed in the previous financial year, he added.

Manmohan Singh on his three days visit to Japan also assured business leaders that India would be taking more steps to attract foreign investments. The government recently has taken tangible steps to enhance incentives for investments and have liberalized foreign investments in areas like multi-brand retail, power exchanges and civil aviation and further rationalization and simplification is being planned. It has also introduced further reforms in the financial markets.

Further, while assuring Japanese industry that the long-awaited Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime facing hurdles from states will be in place in an ‘appropriate type’ by 2014, he said, India is committed to taking ‘hard and difficult’ decisions in the long-term interest of the economy. The GST has been facing opposition from several Non-Congress States which have accused the Centre of trying to encroach on powers of the states and that such a move would hit their finances.

By adding further he said, ‘as a result of these efforts, we expect that growth in 2013-14 will be much better than in the previous year, hopefully around 6% or so. We will do even better in 2014-15. India's strategy for growth involves heavy investment in infrastructure.

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