While a massive 4.67 crore additional jobs were created in the Indian economy in the financial year ended March 2024, the fast pace of employment generation has continued into 2024-25 in both the formal and informal sectors, official data shows.
The Indian economy and the domestic financial system are underpinned by strong macroeconomic fundamentals, healthy balance sheets of banks and non-banks with returns on assets at decadal highs, according to the RBI financial stability report released on Monday.
Notably, the rupee dropped to 85.0650 against the US dollar in early trade, compared to 84.9525 on Wednesday.
Indian economy is to grow at 6.6% in 2025-26, up from 6.4% in the current fiscal year, India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) projected on Wednesday.
Even though the Indian Economy slowed down to 5.4 per cent in the second quarter, it will grow in the range of 6.5 to 7 per cent this fiscal, voiced Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) Anantha Nageswaran on Thursday.
Shaktikanta Das added that COVID-19 pandemic perhaps represents so far the biggest test of robustness and resilience of our economic and financial system.
Standard & Poor’s has already observed that the recession caused by the pandemic will have a deeper and longer impact on lenders than apprehended earlier and that gross NPAs may jump to 14 per cent in the current financial year, up from 8.5 per cent.
In its report titled 'Asia-Pacific losses near USD 3 trillion as balance sheet recession looms', S&P projected the region's economy to shrink by 1.3 per cent in 2020, but grow by 6.9 per cent in 2021.
When reality becomes too gruesome to tolerate, apathy of the urban middle class takes a backseat.
S&P had projected India's economy to shrink by 5 per cent in the current fiscal, and the growth to recover to 8.5 per cent next fiscal.
