Tuesday, June 25, 2013

The fate of rupee


Through this article the author has severely warned the Government for all its failures on the economic front. The inaction of the Government to bring out structural changes in the economy to give a boost to the economic growth has created this inevitable and perhaps avoidable  poor economic condition. The free fall of rupee was in the horizon for quite some time and being a resourcefully strong economy the Govt could have taken some harsh decisions on the economic reforms and implemented. On the contrary the budgets presented till 2013 and policies pursued only helped the economy to nose dive in all fronts starting in the flows of foreign exchange in both directions.The dangers on dependence on foreign funds and that too short term funds are well known and Indian Economy has sufficient internal resources to be tapped for developmental needs and as such the inflows of short term funds could have been either eliminated or discouraged. The dependence of Capital market on FIIS needs to be completely avoided giving a signal to the international market that the economy is strong enough to sustain its market and its liquidity conditions. The article has given a strong message to the authorities to ponder over the policies so far pursued and identify the commissions and omissions to set right at the earliest to avoid major catastrophe. 

Dr.T.V.Gopalakrishnan

( This comment appeared in ET is in response to an article on Expect things (read the rupee) to get worse before they get better in ET )

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