Assuring investors that there is no need to get excessively worried about funding the country’s deficits, Economic Affairs Secretary Arvind Mayaram said that the government is confident of meeting its fiscal deficit and current account deficit (CAD) targets on the back of robust foreign direct investment flows and rising exports. The government has set target to contain the CAD at 3.7 per cent and fiscal deficit at 4.8 percent of GDP in the current financial year.
After a meeting with bankers and overseas investors, Mayaram said that exports actually picked up in the first quarter of FY14 and FDI inflows were very strong compared to the first quarter of last fiscal. FDI inflows into the country have been at $9 billion in the reported quarter, which is 70 per cent more than the same quarter last year. Revealing that there could be some more outflows as foreign institutional investor (FII) have pulled out over $12 billion since May 22 from the Indian markets, Mayaram said that high FIIs outflow is going to be compensated by strong capital inflows on FDI side. The government has planned a road-map to attract foreign investment into the country and there will be $11-12 billion of additional inflows in current financial year.
The government recently announced a slew of measures to attract inflows, including quasi-sovereign bond sales by public sector financial institutions. Further, the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) will take up 32 foreign investment proposals soon including six pharmaceutical sector proposals to boost foreign investment.
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