Govt moving ahead with reforms, no room for pessimism: Finance Minister

26 Jun 2013 Evaluate

Concerned over the high capital outflow, Finance Minister P Chidambaram asked investors not to be overly pessimistic about the falling value of the rupee as fundamentals of the economy are intact and promised more reforms in near future to revive capital inflows into the country. Chidambaram said that $5 billion outflow from India was unfortunate following US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's statement of withdrawing Quantitative Easing.

By adding further, Finance Minister said that among the large emerging economies, India is the fastest growing economies next to China and money will flow back into the country as investors will find India a safe destination to invest. Replying to a question on declining value of rupee, Chidambaram said that FII outflow is the main reason for rupee depreciation, but there is no need for pessimism as this temporary phase should easily pass. Recently, the rupee touched all-time low of 59.98 to a dollar on account of high Foreign Institutional Investment (FII) outflow. 

Referring to the new measures to boost economic growth, Chidambaram said that government is moving ahead on the reforms path and it will take a call on revising the FDI caps in different sectors in the second or third week of July. Further, the government is accelerating the implementation of stalled projects and more action would be taken to resolve contentious issues in the next two weeks, he added.

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