India’s GDP growth projected at 7.2% in 2024-25: Patra

23 Oct 2024 Evaluate

Reserve Bank of India deputy governor Michael Debabrata Patra has said that India’s GDP growth is projected at 7.2 per cent in 2024-25, around 7 per cent in the next fiscal, and after that, there is a strong likelihood that the growth will revert to the 8 per cent trend. He said ‘I do believe with all the strength of my conviction that India’s time has come’.

He highlighted the country heads into its future with the youngest population in the world with a median age of 28 years. Unlike in many parts of the world, the working age population is growing - every sixth working age person is an Indian. He said that since independence in 1947, India’s growth path has undergone three structural shifts with trend growth, having risen to 7 per cent during 2002-2019. He stated after the severe contraction during the pandemic, a new growth trajectory averaging 8 per cent seems to be forming during 2021-24. India is now regarded as the fastest growing major economy in the world.

Already the fifth largest economy in terms of market exchange rates, it is poised to become the third largest economy by 2030, He said and added the country is already the third largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity. On inflation, he said it is projected to average 4.5 per cent in 2024-25 and 4.1 per cent in 2025-26. Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation fell below target during July-August but rose to 5.5 per cent in September on the back of a pickup in price momentum in some food items and adverse base effects inherent in year-on-year measurement.

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