The Survey projected growth rate of 7-7.75 per cent for 2016-17 with downside risks due to weak global economic scenario.
Low consumer demand, a slide in investments and troubles in the banking sector should prompt the government to recalibrate taxes and expenditure. It is also important to ramp up spending on health care and education, says CII president Sumit Mazumder.
Launches of new homes reduced drastically this year.
Special Economic Zones are likely to be central to realising Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious Make in India agenda.
There were heightened expectations from Budget 2017 after the impact of note ban on different sections but most remain unfulfilled.
China's economy is worse than it really is, but then these are emblematic of the baffling self-congratulatory mood that exists in India today.
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Gujarat is a flourshing state but its business model is not so well accepted at national level.
If Prime Minister Narendra Modi fails to live up to the expectations that he has raised, it will be entirely his fault. He should have started by ending the IAS
While the tax holiday for the factory coming to an end might be a factor, many say the business model of Microsoft (which acquired Nokia's handset division last year), as well as freebies offered by the Vietnamese government, might also have played a role.
Global investor and author Jim Rogers, who recently sold his India investments, talks about his disappointment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's economic reforms, why he is betting big on the US dollar and the Chinese Renminbi and what will bring him back to India some day.
It is time to take a few macroeconomic risks to kick start the growth.
FM indicates adherence to fiscal road map, benign tax rates, correction in inverted duty structure
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The ball is now in the Reserve Bank of India's court to lift up demand, says Ajay S Shriram.
Clamping down on the delays in repatriating foreign exchange earnings, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has tightened norms for special economic zones (SEZs), asking them to realise and bring back full value of goods and services to India within a year from the date of export.
Tax problems and unfavourable WTO agreements are making Tamil Nadu's electronics corridor less attractive to companies.
Markets are likely to go down, correct and stay subdued.
Budget in the medium term aims to kick-start the investment cycle.
Most expect the Budget to be path-breaking.
The government now ends its mandate with reaffirmation in the vote-on-account of the same goals, for which it claims to have a clear line of sight.
Sectors throw up a wishlist for the Finance Minister.
Budget might turn out to be neutral for the sector.
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Mayank Ashar talks about India's business environment.
Slow pace of reforms in India is disappointing: Faber
Boost to dairy sector will generate jobs
Concluding the three-part series, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta says that the black money law is likely to fail because of the ineptness of India's investigative and enforcement agencies.
The industry status will help the sector access bank lending at average interest rates
'There were tears in my eyes when I parted with my medals. I thought was it for this moment did I become a soldier?' In 2008, Captain H Balakrishnan (retd) of the Indian Navy returned all his medals to the President of India to protest the government's failure to implement the One Rank One Pension scheme.
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