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India’s CAD to fall below $50 billion in FY14: Assocham chief

30 Aug 2013 Evaluate

Giving a pleasant surprise for investors, Assocham President and Managing Director, Rana Kapoor said that India’s current account deficit (CAD) may come below $50 billion for the current fiscal on the back of sharp contraction in imports, primarily due to the recent initiatives  taken by the government. Assocham President’s forecast is substantially lower than the $70 billion CAD projected by the government for the FY14. Meanwhile, India's CAD rose to record high of $88.2 billion or 4.8 percent of the GDP in the previous fiscal.

In order to contain the country’s widening CAD, Kapoor said that there is a need for the government to push exports and should focus on creating agri-export zones in the country. By adding further, he added that the quantum of refinance made available by RBI to banks for supporting export should be increased to 100 percent from existing 50 per cent. As the government looking at a sovereign bond issue, to fund the burgeoning CAD, Assocham President is in favor of, but feels that the government would have to wait for an opportune time before going for sovereign bond issuance.

Referring to the Indian economic growth, Rana Kapoor said that Indian economy will bounce back on the back of its strong growth drivers. Further, he added that government’s disinvestment target of Rs 40,000 crore would be easily met even as the market conditions were not positive and it should go ahead with exchange traded fund (ETF) product on shares of public sector enterprises (PSE).  

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