NEW DELHI, Apr 29:
Brushing aside concerns of slowdown in the reforms process ahead of elections, Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg said the pace of reform is reasonably intact and there are no signs of “de-reform” in the system.
“I would suggest still the process of reforms is continuing in reasonably major way. If I can talk about sectors which I directly deal with like portfolio investment, capital markets, whether it is the assets creation, all of those areas are still seeing lot of reforms,” he said in an interview.
Last week, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in consultation with the government announced a slew of measures to raise exposure of Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPI) in G-Secs to 30 per cent from the earlier level of 20 per cent.
Besides, the RBI further liberalised External Commercial Borrowing (ECB) norms by including more sectors in a bid to facilitate cheaper access of overseas funds to corporates. “The kind of major structural and fundamental reforms undertaken in the country so far are truly global, they are really big,” he said, giving examples like the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC).
Consolidation process continues, he said, pointing out that GST stabilisation continues and IBC is also stabilising.
“We need to respond to the changes required…Changes coming in the GST… In IBC some more measures being taken up. (PTI)
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