Fin Min committed towards country’s growth story; promises more steps to boost economy

19 Dec 2013 Evaluate

Besides committing more steps to boost economy, Finance Minister highlighted that the initiatives taken by the government in the past one year are expected to fetch result as this would do its bit to boost investment and revive the sagging growth. In an attempt to shore-up investors’ confidence after US Federal Reserve announced to trim down its aggressive bond-buying program by $10 billion a month, the Finance Minister reiterated  that the government was committed to take all necessary steps to revive growth, boost investment, create conducive business environment, improving efficiency and depth of the markets, wider participation of investors and strengthening of the regulatory and institutional framework to channelize greater investments and to achieve potential growth of the Indian economy.

Listing out the initiatives taken by the government in the past one year to boost growth, Finance Minister underscored that the economy is headed towards gradual recovery and growth stabilization, after slipping to a decade’s low level of 5% in 2012-13. He highlighted that the government in consultation with RBI and SEBI made concerted efforts and instituted several measures to attract off-shore portfolio investment and improve investors' appetite.

Further, on account of policies to promote inclusive growth, FM unveiled that the proportion of people living below the poverty line declined from 37.2% in 2004-05 to 21.9% in 2011-12 and also added that this decline, had been at a much faster rate than the previous decades. Additionally, he underscored that Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI), in order to boost investment, de-bottlenecked 200 projects, while Project Monitoring Group (PMG) had resolved 93 projects with total estimated cost of Rs 3.53 lakh crore.

Lastly, he also brought to light the initiatives, like settling up of Infrastructure Debt Funds (IDF), authorising PSUs to issue tax-free bonds, enhancement of the FII limits, among others to boost investment and growth.

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