Prime Minister calls to focus on manufacturing to boost economic growth

10 Jul 2013 Evaluate

In a bid to enhance the share of manufacturing in the country’s GDP, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that India needs to focus on the manufacturing over the next decade to achieve economy’s potential growth rate of 8-9 percent in the future. During the meeting of the high-level committee on manufacturing, Manmohan Singh said that the country’s economy is witnessing shift in its structure as agriculture sector, which continues to account for more than 50 percent of population, today represents less than 15 percent of GDP, therefore, there is a need to develop manufacturing sector, particularly labour-intensive manufacturing to pick up the economy’s growth.

Prime Minister further stated that there are certain manufacturing sectors which have done well over the last 20 years, like automobiles and pharmaceuticals among others, but, we did not leverage our strengths both in traditional industries and in emerging sectors and the country’s manufacturing production is at lower end of the value chain and hardly have any manufacturing capabilities in electronics and telecommunications sectors.

Manmohan Singh expressed the need to remove bottlenecks that hinder progress of manufacturing sector. Prime Minister will meet industry leaders on 29 July to discuss ways to enhance the Indian industry output. Though, the government has been taking all possible measures to boost the manufacturing growth and 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. 

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