Assocham recommends measures to boost economy growth

06 Sep 2013 Evaluate

In order to pick up Indian economic growth, Industry body Assocham has suggested the various measures to the government including raising investment in agriculture and cutting back on subsidies among others.

Assocham President Rana Kapoor said that the government must raise investment in agriculture from below 3 percent at present to over 5 percent by the end of the ongoing Five-year Plan (2012-17) and also recommended to adopt an 'expenditure switching' policy, to achieve the fiscal deficit target of 4.8 per cent in the current fiscal by cutting back on subsidies and boosting plan capital expenditure. The government must issue dollar-denominated NRI bonds as a short-term measure to build forex reserves. By adding further, Assocham president said that the government should execute divestment agenda according to plan and also lay out a credible time-bound roadmap for roll-out of the much-awaited Goods and Services Tax (GST) and Direct Taxes Code (DTC).

Further, in order to boost the country’s export, government should lower cost of export credit, Kapoor added. Assocham expects that the Indian economy growth will revive in the second half of FY 2014. Meanwhile, the country’s growth slowed down to four year low at 4.4 percent in the April to June quarter of this fiscal.

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