External sector, weather uncertainties pose risk to growth: Finance Ministry

NEW DELHI: There are downside risks to growth and upside risks to inflation, partly channelled through the external sector and partially originating from weather uncertainties, the Finance Ministry said in a report. Consumption has shown steady and broad-based growth, while investment in capacity creation and real estate is finding traction, said the April edition of the Finance Ministry’s Monthly Economic Review. “April is too early to forecast the economic outcomes for the entire year. A good beginning, though, is a harbinger ofpositiveoutcomes,”itsaid.

Observing that the FY24 for the Indian economy opened on the back of strong activity witnessed in the last quarter of the previous fiscal, the report said GST collections in April, which marked the commercial activity of the last month, underwent a level shift pushed up by the widening of the tax base and heightened economic activity. Index of IndustrialProduction (IIP) and Eight Core Industries Index (ECI) averaged steady growth in Q4 of FY23, adding to the capacity utilisation hovering close to 75 per cent two quartersearlier,itsaid.

Buoyed by sustainable growth in activity and increasing capacity utilisation, the corporates have started investinginnewcapacity,itsaid,adding, the production of capital goods and construction / infrastructure goods, as estimated in the IIP, grew steadily in Q4 of FY23, along with imports of capital goods. Like the manufacturing and services sector, it said the prospects for the agriculture sector also appear to be bright.

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