India should maintain fiscal deficit and revenue mobilisation: Gopinath
By MYBRANDBOOK
At the 92nd Annual Convention of FICCI, IMF Chief Economist Gita Gopinath said that India needs to keep its fiscal deficit target, which would require expenditure rationalisation and increased revenue mobilisation.
She also said that in the past few quarters, there has been a steep slowdown in private sector demand, which consequently has led to a weakness in investment. She was also worried about the prolonged weakness in investment, which according to her will affect potential growth. She stressed this at the special plenary moderated by Harsh Pati Singhania, former president of FICCI.
With tax revenue slowing in a sputtering economy, some states had on Wednesday suggested Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to go for fiscal expansion and relax the deficit target to 4 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP).
Gopinath said that another set of big reforms are required to get manufacturing on the ground and for India to have bigger presence on the export front.
"There are important reforms needed with respect to land acquisition and labour laws as well," she said.
Nazara and ONDC set to transform in-game monetization with ‘
Nazara Technologies has teamed up with the Open Network for Digital Comme...
Jio Platforms and NICSI to offer cloud services to government
In a collaborative initiative, the National Informatics Centre Services In...
BSNL awards ₹5,000 Cr Project to RVNL-Led Consortium
A syndicate led by Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (abbreviated as RVNL), along wi...
Pinterest tracks users without consent, alleges complaint
A recent complaint alleges that Pinterest, the popular image-sharing platf...
ACER INDIA PVT. LTD.
PRAMA HIKVISION INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
DRUVA SOFTWARE PVT. LTD.
HAVELLS INDIA LTD.
Icons Of India : CP Gurnani
Former Managing Director and CEO of the well-known IT service company ...
Icons Of India : Puneet Chandok
Puneet Chandok is President, Microsoft India & South Asia and is respo...
ICONS OF INDIA : RAJIV MEMANI
As Chair of the EY Global Emerging Markets Committee, Rajiv connects e...
NSE - National Stock Exchange
NSE is the leading stock exchange in India....
LIC - Life Insurance Corporation of India
LIC is the largest state-owned life insurance company in India...
HPCL - Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd.
HPCL is an integrated oil and gas company involved in refining, market...
Indian Tech Talent Excelling The Tech World - George Kurian, CEO, Netapp
George Kurian, the CEO of global data storage and management services ...
Indian Tech Talent Excelling The Tech World - ARVIND KRISHNA, CEO – IBM
Arvind Krishna, an Indian-American business executive, serves as the C...
Indian Tech Talent Excelling The Tech World - REVATHI ADVAITHI, CEO- Flex
Revathi Advaithi, the CEO of Flex, is a dynamic leader driving growth ...