PM to meet industry leaders to discuss strategies to boost economic growth

09 Jul 2013 Evaluate

Concerned over depreciating rupee and prevailing economic slowdown, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet industry leaders on 29 July to discuss ways to revive the economy. The agenda will be to discuss measures to contain current account deficit (CAD) and to arrest depreciation of the rupee and further note the impact of falling rupee on trade and industry. The Indian rupee has weakened by almost 10 percent this year and hit a record low of 61.21 against the dollar on Monday. Meanwhile, the CAD widened to record 4.8 percent of GDP in FY13 and the government intends to bring it down to 4.2 per cent this financial year.    

To enhance the Indian industry output, Prime Minister will also discuss steps to accelerate skill development and the developments of industrial corridors include Delhi-Mumbai, Chennai-Bangalore and Amritsar-Delhi-Kolkata industrial corridors. Further, the meeting headed by Manmohan Singh will also discuss about the ways to boost steel production and textile exports, besides the launch of pilot project on electric and hybrid vehicles for Delhi. Meanwhile, sluggish investments and industrial growth have become concerns for the Asia's third largest economy. Indian industry production is not showing any signs of pick up even in the current fiscal, which had witnessed a sharp deceleration in growth in the last one year with growth falling to 1% in FY13. Further, the manufacturing slowdown has also affected the services sector.

Meanwhile, the government has been taking all possible measures to pick up the economic growth. Last month, the prime minister has set an investment target of Rs 1.15 lakh crore in PPP (public private partnership) projects across infrastructure sectors in rail, port and power for the next six months to encourage the investors’ sentiment. The government has already introduced a National Manufacturing Policy that seeks to take the share of manufacturing to 25% of GDP in the next 10 years from around 14% now.

© 2026 The Alchemists Ark Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. MoneyWorks4Me ® is a registered trademark of The Alchemists Ark Pvt. Ltd.

×