Maintaining sustained growth top priority: Nirmala Sitharaman

28 Jul 2025 Evaluate

Amid global uncertainties, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that maintaining sustained growth is the top priority, and an incremental rise in public capital expenditure is one of the drivers for economic development. The statement assumes significance as the Indian economy grew by 6.5 per cent in FY25. This growth was the slowest in four years, and compares to a 9.2 per cent expansion in the previous 2023-24 fiscal. The Economic Survey has projected the GDP growth for FY26 between 6.3 per cent and 6.8 per cent, while the RBI lowered its growth forecast from an earlier level of 6.7 per cent to 6.5 per cent for the ongoing financial year.

She said ‘To maintain the growth is the topmost priority. Growth is the topmost, and therefore, it will have an overlap with how you create jobs…’ She said keeping India relevant amid global challenges and being there in a leadership position, and moving forward along with other countries are other priority areas, and added that the priority would also be to redefine the voice of the Global South. She further said finding resources for meeting many domestic economic aspirations within fiscal constraints is another priority.

She said ‘Public investments have kept pace. It has been Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s clear instruction that we have to have capital expenditure grow and grow significantly. I confidently believe that it is one of the primary drivers of sustained economic growth’. The other focus area of the government is to push growth through a friendly and attractive FDI policy to be able to get more and more investments happening in India. Besides, the healthy competition among states to attract investment is also a good sign. About bilateral trade deals, she said such agreements are taking priority over multilateral trade. 

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