Chennai:
Indian President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday hit out at
self-styled Cassandras and urged businessmen to shun pessimism and focus on
domestic driven market and domestic demand driven growth strategy.
Speaking during a felicitation meeting organised by the
Madras Chamber of Commerce and Industry to honour him on his first visit to
Chennai after assuming the office of President of India, Mukherjee skipped his
prepared speech and said that there is no dearth of self-styled Cassandras who
always make forecast but we have to have confidence on ourselves and technology
competent workforce.
“The GDP has slowed down, inflation is high, environment for
investments not appear to be bright and fiscal deficit is an area of concern
but lamenting on negative sentiments will not overcome this problem,”
Mukherjee, a former finance minister in the Congress regime, said.
The President said that there have been ups and down but the
fundamentals of economy is strong. The Gross domestic savings may not be that
high as 36 per cent recorded in 2007 but it is still high at 32 per cent, he
said.
He said the euro zone crisis had a lasting impact on world
economic growth but due to the effort of our entrepreneurs and farmers we have
turned the tables in two consecutive years but this first quarter the GDP
growth shrunk to 5.5 per cent.
“But around the world not many countries are doing better
than us and International Monetary Fund is revising growth projection of all
the countries,” Mukherjee said.
Stressing on the need to focus on domestic demand driven
growth strategy, he said the growth couldn’t be too high but not too low
either.
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