Friday, January 22, 2010

Performance of industrial sector

 The impact of various measures taken by the Government is visible in the improved performance of the industrial sector in the last two quarters as given below:



2008-09 2009-10


April-June   July-Sept  Oct-Dec  Jan-Mar April-June  July-Sept

5.3                  4.7                0.8            0.5          3.9               9.1




The Government had announced three stimulus packages on December 7, 2008, January 2, 2009 and February 16, 2009 (in the Interim Budget for 2009-10) to provide support to the industries impacted by economic slowdown. These industries included the labour intensive industries. The measures to stimulate domestic demand inter-alia include reduction in ad-valorem CENVAT duty, incentives to the housing sector with a view to give a boost to affordable housing, and sector specific initiatives. Further, a set of measures were announced for enhancing the flow of funds to the MSE sector.



The various measures to support exports included interest subvention of 2% for pre & post shipment export credit for identified labour intensive industries, additional allocation for export intensive schemes, additional funds towards providing guarantee by the Export Credit Guarantee Corporations and enhancements of duty draw back benefits on certain identified exportable items. In addition, RBI has taken a number of steps to reduce the cost of credit and improve liquidity for the industry such as reduction of the Repo rates, reverse Repo rates, Cash reserve ratio etc.

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