Indian economy will prevail through GST in coming months - Nirmal Singh Lotus Green
In a press conference on
Thursday, the World Bank talked about the economic slowdown in India and how
that is just a temporary phase. The World Bank said that the disruptions are
just aberrations that have been caused due to the preparations of GST. These
issues will soon be rectified by the Indian government in the next few months,
the spokesperson added.
While discussing GST with Nirmal Singh Lotus Green in Washington
last week, Kim Yong Kim, the president of World Bank, said that the Goods and
Services Tax implemented by Modi will surely have positive impacts on the
Indian economy. He also said that for such a huge thing to work, patience is
required and that without it everything will look like its coming down when it
isn’t – something similar is happening India.
‘The Indian media has always played a pivotal role in bringing out the
positive sides of the policies that the governments have brought in. The media
has worked with the government. When in the early stages of the Modi government
the media was being termed as a puppet, the same media has turned to the
opposite extreme. When the media is not supporting the government with policies
that the World Bank is showing hope in, I don’t know how the general public can
trust the government. The responsibility is on the media to not turn a simple
situation into a national doomsday which I think isn’t happening right now.’ - Nirmal Singh Lotus Green
There will be another delegation
visiting the USA next week which will be led by the Indian Finance Minister,
Arun Jaitley. He will be taking questions about the Indian economy and will be
discussing the next steps that the finance ministry has planned to take in the
coming years with the World Bank. Kim, along with Arun Jaitley, will also talk
about the world economy and how that has gained pace in the last decade after
showing disappointing growth.
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