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- Moderate inflation and robust agriculture
- Normal monsoon, impressive services sector performance
- Rise in bank credit, revival of pvt investment
- Increase in capacity utilization by industry
- Next print of retail inflation expected to be below 4.7%
New Delhi: Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das on Wednesday said the growth for 2022-23 is expected to be more than the advance estimate of seven per cent on the back of economic momentum maintained in the third and fourth quarters of the last fiscal. As per the second advance estimate released by the National Statistical Office (NSO) in February, the economy is estimated to grow at seven per cent in 2022-23 against 8.7 per cent in the preceding fiscal.
“There is a possibility that it could be even more, it will not be a surprise if the GDP growth of last year comes slightly above 7 per cent,” he said at a CII event here. Provisional Annual Estimates for the year 2022-23 will be released on May 31, 2023.
“It initially appeared in the third quarter that there was a pent-up demand which was supporting the economic activity, but all the economic indicators in the fourth quarter of last financial year show that economic activities sustained momentum. In fact, all the high-frequency indicators, around 70 of them, which we monitored in the Reserve Bank of India, almost in all of these high-frequency indicators, the momentum was maintained in the fourth quarter. So therefore, we should not be surprised if the growth is slightly more than seven per cent,” he said.
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- Shaktikanta Das
