Sitharaman wants to incentivize people to boost demand
Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced measures of Rs.73,000 crore to stimulate consumer spending in the economy to fight the slowdown due to COVID-19 pandemic following lockdown.
While announcing the demand stimulus package, Sitharaman said, “Indications are that savings of government and organised sector employees have increased and we want to incentivise such people to boost demand for the benefit of the less fortunate.”
The Finance Minister further said that if demand goes up based on the stimulus measures announced today, it will have an impact on those people who have been affected by COVID-19 and are desperately looking for demand to keep their business going.
The Finance Minister stressed on the idea that today’s solution should not cause tomorrow’s problem. Sitharaman said that the Government does not want to burden the common citizen with future inflation and also not put the Government debt on an unsustainable path.
The proposals presented today by the Finance Minister are designed to stimulate spending in a fiscally prudent manner as some of the proposals are for advancing or front-loading of expenditure with offsetting changes later while others are directly linked to increases in GDP.
The present announcement of 12 Oct 2020 by Sitharaman highlights the active intervention by the Government of India to combat the economic slowdown created by COVID-19. #budget #spending #demand #consumer #economy /fiinews.com
