V-shaped recovery in Q 1st  shows strong macroeconomic fundamentals: Finance Ministry
V-shaped recovery in Q 1st shows strong macroeconomic fundamentals: Finance Ministry
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New Delhi: In its latest Monthly Economic Review, the Finance Ministry expressed  The V-shaped recovery in the first quarter of 2021-22, despite the brutal second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, is a testimony to India's strong macroeconomic fundamentals, according to the Finance Ministry.

The Finance Ministry also expressed concern over high incidence of COVID-19 cases in Kerala and Maharashtra and underlined the need for strengthening pandemic control and management in these two states. The Indian economy grew by 20.1 percent in the first quarter of the current financial year reaffirming, "India's resilient V-shaped recovery despite an intense second wave," it said.

Hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, the economy had dipped by 24.4 percent during the first quarter of the previous fiscal. Going forward, the report said the agriculture sector continues to offer comfortable prospects with Kharif sowing at 101 percent of normal levels as of September 3, despite a 9 percent deficient monsoon so far in the year. Record-high paddy procurement and increasing tractor sales augur well for strengthened rural demand in the coming months, it said, adding, Industry is steadily gaining lost ground with June's IIP witnessing a broad-based growth, having recovered close to 95 percent of pre-pandemic levels of June 2019.

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