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Survey: Govt needs to speed up reforms for growth

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Government needs to speed up implementation of GST, address the issue of cheap imports and improve investment climate as majority of sectors are witnessing moderate growth, says a CII survey.
The survey, which tracks the growth of economic sectors on a quarterly basis, also stressed on the quick implementation of the announcements in the budget especially in the infrastructure space, boosting export competitiveness and addressing the issue of delayed payments.
Overall, the current trends reveal that majority of the sectors are continuing to witness moderate growth trends with excellent and high growth limited to some sectors, it said. However, a decline in the share of sectors registering low growth is clearly an indication towards the bottoming out of growth trends in the majority of sectors.
"Going forward, on the back of the various measures and structural reforms taken by the government, it is expected that the current momentum would be supportive of the revival becoming broad based in the coming quarters," it said.
It said key economic reforms like GST, land acquisition, labour laws, public procurement policy will add to improving the business environment and also play a big role in investment decisions.
To further support the Make in India initiative, there is a need to strengthen anti- dumping laws to protect local manufacturing and provide subsidies on production of major raw materials of key export products to make them cost competitive, it said.
"Increasing tax credit and providing tax deduction for R& D would provide acompetitive edge to several sectors involving R& D.
Tax incentives would significantly help small companies, which face a difficult task of acquiring credit from banks," the CIIASCON survey said.
Business Standard New Delhi,06th June 2016

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