A report tabled in Parliament has stated that India recorded an average annual economic growth rate of 8% during the 11th Five Year Plan (2007-12), however this was lower than the targeted 9% growth. The difference between the two could be attributed to both internal and external factors, viz. global slowdown, fluctuations in international prices, strong inflationary pressures and negative growth in agriculture due to drought like situation.
According to planning Minister Rajeev Shukla’s statement to the Rajya Sabha, the approach to the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17), which had envisaged 9 per cent annual average economic growth rate, was later revised downward at 8 per cent by the National Development Council (NDC) in December 2012 while approving the five year policy. However, the growth targets would be reassessed in the mid-term appraisal of the five year policy in 2014-15.
Further, he highlighted that several steps had been undertaken to address the slowdown in GDP growth, including the setting of Cabinet Committee on Investment to fast track large infrastructure projects, strengthening of financial and banking sector and steps to increase infrastructure financing.
Nevertheless, in its advance estimates, Central Statistics Office (CSO) has pegged the economic growth in the current fiscal at 4.9 per cent which would be slightly higher than decade low figure of 4.5 per cent achieved in 2011-12. It is in view of this snail-paced growth, viz, 4.5 per cent in first year of 12th Plan (2012-13) and 4.9 per cent in second year (2013-14), the annual average economic growth rate target for the entire five year policy could be revised downwards.
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