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Eco growth to be over 8.4 PC in third, fourth quarter: Jaswant
New Delhi, Jan 14: Hinting next key reforms will be easing of foreign investment regime, Finance Minister Jaswant Singh today asserted that economic growth would be more than 8.4 per cent in the third and fourth quarter and fiscal deficit within target despite Rs 12,000 crore customs and excise sops last week.
New Delhi, Jan 14: Hinting next key reforms will be
easing of foreign investment regime, Finance Minister Jaswant
Singh today asserted that economic growth would be more than
8.4 per cent in the third and fourth quarter and fiscal
deficit within target despite Rs 12,000 crore customs and
excise sops last week.
"Though a Finance Minister cannot speculate about the
growth figures", he said the macro conditions which enabled
the country to achieve 8.4 per cent growth in the second
quarter of this fiscal would in fact improve in the next two
quarters.
Bureau Report