RBI rate cut to complement government’s measures to boost growth: Finmin


Team Udayavani, Oct 4, 2019, 3:52 PM IST

New Delhi: The Finance Ministry on Friday said the Reserve Bank’s decision to lower benchmark lending rate will complement recent measures taken by the government to accelerate growth.

Earlier in the day, RBI cut the repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.15 per cent.

Government has noted the reduction in repo rate from 5.40 per cent to 5.15 per cent announced by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) and believes that this will complement the recent measures taken by the government to accelerate growth, an official statement released by the Finance Ministry said.

The government has taken a slew of measures since August 23 to pull the economy out of a six-year low growth and a 45-year high unemployment rate by reviving private investments.

Last month, the government cut corporate tax rate by almost 10 percentage points, a move which has a tax implication of Rs 1.45 lakh crore.

As part of the exercise, the government also withdrew enhanced surcharge on long- and short-term capital gains for foreign portfolio investors as well as domestic portfolio investors with revenue implication of Rs 1,400 crore.

It further said that the government has also taken note of revised growth projections of MPC at 6.1 per cent for 2019-20 along with growth projections made by other bodies, including the IMF, ADB, among others.

The government has further taken note of higher projection of headline inflation by MPC for 2019-20, which is within the band of 3-4 per cent and well within the target range, it said.

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