“Wholesale inflation is 14.2 percent and ‘unemployment’ is up 10.48 percent. Without private investments (increasingly) we could now be heading for stagflation, ”said Mitra, who spoke virtually at the CFO Leadership Summit organized by the institute of Cost Accountants of India.
Stagflation is defined as a situation of persistently high inflation combined with high unemployment and stagnant demand in a country’s economy.
Mitra said India was in such a precarious situation due to a “flawed economic policy” by the Union government, which began demonization in 2016, followed by the introduction of a complex tax on goods and services, “and now a wrong policy to manage the economy in Covid” Confronted are times that neither stimulate private investment nor enable people to spend more. ”
“Investments in infrastructure (which the government uses) will be lagged and we need immediate spending, and for that the government needs to put money straight into the hands of the people. The Union Finance Minister accepts that private investment will not be made and asks different departments to do so in order to stimulate (public) investment, but that will not produce immediate results, “he said.
Regarding West Bengal, Mitra claimed the state “took the right steps,” including lowering stamp duty and county rates, to stimulate private sector investment, resulting in “positive government GDP growth of 1.2″ 7.7 percent in FY21. ”
Many countries poured money into their people’s hands to revitalize their economies, he said. However, this has not been replicated in India.
As a result, “India is one of the countries with the greatest inequality in the World Inequality Report 2022, where the top 1 percent of the population now controls 22 percent of national income and the bottom 50 percent only has a share of 13 percent,” said the former state finance minister.
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