Inflation to come down to tolerable levels if crude prices do not rise again: Chidambaram

17 Jul 2013 Evaluate

Finance Minister P Chidambaram has exuded confidence of inflation figures cooling down to tolerable levels, provided the crude prices do not rise again. Chidambaram underscored that, although government has taken quite a few steps until now, more measures will be taken on the supply side bottlenecks to moderate the inflation. Inflation, hovering around nine per cent, has been brought down to below five per cent in the last nine months. However, after a decline for four months, it again shot up to 4.9 per cent in June.

Additionally, Finance Minister, besides assuring investors of financing Current Account Deficit (CAD) without dipping forex reserves, as seen in the year gone by, has also promised more policy decisions in the coming days. This time around, Chidambaram is confident of containing CAD below the 2012-13 level of 4.8 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP).

Meanwhile, putting the blame on the economy's current state of affairs at the doors of his predecessor Pranab Mukherjee, Chidambaram said the post-crisis stimulus packages announced by the government were chiefly responsible for the slowdown in growth, given that the economy grew at nine per cent between 2004 and 2008.

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