GDP to hit $6 trillion by 2027. RBI : Repo rate unchanged at 6%,

ON OCTOBER 4, 2017 BY NARESH SAGAREDIT

Governor, Reserve Bank of India in its bi-monthly monetary policy review announced that it will not change key rates.

The repo rate to remain unchanged at 6 per cent and the reverse repo rate to remain at 5.75 per cent. The Central bank revised the growth projection down from 7.3 per cent to 6.7 per cent.

The Central bank revised the growth projection down from 7.3 per cent to 6.7 per cent.

Petrol and Diesel have become cheaper from midnight last night as the government reduced the basic excise duty on both by two rupees per litre. The decision has been taken to cushion the impact of rising international prices of crude oil and retail prices of petrol and diesel. Fuel prices have started moving up owing to refinery shutdowns in the US following recent hurricanes.

The reduction will apply on both branded and unbranded Petrol and Diesel and is expected to provide much needed relief to the common man. Petrol in Delhi will now be cheaper by two rupees 50 paise per litre and Diesel by two rupees 25 paise per litre.

Finance Ministry has said that revenue loss on account of these reductions will be about 26 thousand crore rupees in a full year and about 13 thousand crore rupees during the remaining part of the current financial year.

Centre has also urged the state governments to reduce the VAT imposed on Petrol and Diesel to provide more relief to consumers. In a statement Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry said, the government is monitoring the developments in the prices of Petrol and Diesel in the international as well as domestic market. It said, the centre is committed to take all necessary steps to protect the wellbeing of consumers in the country.

India is likely to be the world’s fastest-growing large economy in the next 10 years, driven by digitisation, favourable demographics, globalisation and reforms, predicts a Morgan Stanley report.

According to the global financial services major, the trend line in India’s annual GDP growth has been accelerating to 6.9 percent in 2000s, from 5.8 percent in the 1990s, and
this momentum is likely to continue in the next decade as well.

Morgan Stanley expects digitisation will provide an enhancement of 50-75 bps to GDP growth and forecast that India will grow to a 6-trillion-dollar economy and achieve upper-middle income status by 2026-27.

Morgan Stanley said that India’s real GDP growth to compound annually at 7.1 percent and nominal GDP growth to compound at 11.2 percent, over the coming decade.