Narendra Modi Gets A Reality Check As India Investment Fails To Take F

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Mumbai: Those waiting for a surge in Indian investment should get comfortable—it will be awhile.

New project proposals announced in the three months through June were the lowest since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took power in May 2014, according to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy Pvt, a Mumbai-based research company. Of another 540 stalled projects valued at $432 billion, three-quarters are either substantially completed, unviable or lack funding, UBS Group AG said in a 2 July note.

“If investors are looking at this being a sharp uptick in growth in the next 12 months, that’s where the hopes are misplaced,” said Gautam Chhaochharia, a UBS analyst in Mumbai. “It will take time.”

The data show that falling interest rates and Modi’s pro-business rhetoric have yet to prod companies into spending more, pressuring his government to pick up the slack. Financial markets are dialling down expectations raised after Modi’s sweeping election win, with the benchmark index gaining 2.4% so far this year after a 30% climb in 2014.

The numbers bolster the case for Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan to further lower the benchmark interest rate after reductions totalling 75 basis points so far this year. UBS expects another 75 basis points of cuts in the year through March 2016, differing from swap traders and most economists who predict he’ll keep the rate at 7.25%.

Lower borrowing costs could aid the private sector, which is struggling to clear stalled projects. Either way, Modi’s administration will have to fast-track clearances and ensure raw material supplies that have held up more than half of the stuck projects, HSBC Holdings Plc said in a 3 July note.

‘Hard work needed’

“Several more quarters of hard work is needed,” wrote Pranjul Bhandari, HSBC’s chief India economist. The government also has an expenditure constraint as it looks to narrow the budget deficit to the smallest since 2008, she said.

The shortfall reached 37.5% of the full-year goal in the first two months of the fiscal year started 1 April as the government spent almost 15% of its budget, government data show. While initial figures show a revenue surge, it’s unclear if the trend will continue.

V.P. Joy, head of Modi’s Project Monitoring Group, wasn’t immediately available for comment when called on his office phone.

Some see room for optimism. “Early signs” of a revival in private capital expenditure are apparent in CMIE data showing that projects under implementation rose for the first time in eight quarters, Morgan Stanley economists led by Upasana Chachra wrote on 3 July.

Even so, it’s “unusual” for the government’s investment in April-June to be lower than that of private companies, Mahesh Vyas, CMIE’s managing director, said by phone.

“The promise they made that they will de-bottleneck has turned out to be a lot more difficult,” he said. “It signifies that the problems are a lot more intricate, complicated than they were made out to be.” Bloomberg

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Bloomberg aa
Vallu musti munta gallu

Bbc
Bloomberg

Etc etc antha Presstitute jaathi

[KeyserSoze]

okka mukka artham kale

[donganaaK]

okka mukka artham kale

 

still no large scale development anta ...  but i think oka 3-4 years tarvatha kaani teliyadu how useful all these deals that Modi has been etching .... 

[donganaaK]

okka mukka artham kale

 

still no large scale development anta ...  but i think oka 3-4 years tarvatha kaani teliyadu how useful all these deals that Modi has been etching .... 

[vaade_veedu]

still no large scale development anta ...  but i think oka 3-4 years tarvatha kaani teliyadu how useful all these deals that Modi has been etching .... 

 

eella eddipooatvam India is in a building phase ... idemanna China na adda diddam ga develop cheyyataniki

[donganaaK]

eella eddipooatvam India is in a building phase ... idemanna China na adda diddam ga develop cheyyataniki

 

exactly ... but BJP promises kuda atlaage undinay before elections , so the high expectations ....

[Guest Khulfi_Raja]

Bloomberg aa
Vallu musti munta gallu

Bbc
Bloomberg

Etc etc antha Presstitute jaathi

All news channels anthey kada

They take sides.

[KeyserSoze]

only thing stopping India away from troubles is coz of our RBI governer....I hope india finds another gem of a guy like him when he retires

[vaade_veedu]

exactly ... but BJP promises kuda atlaage undinay before elections , so the high expectations ....

 

 

Frankly speaking Modi edi defined ga promise cheyyale, obama laane we want change congress mukt bharat annadu anthe... baga telivaina vadu

[alpachinao]

only thing stopping India away from troubles is coz of our RBI governer....I hope india finds another gem of a guy like him when he retires

 

RBI governer emi pikkutharu baa na chala rojulu nunchi doubt... inflation rate chudatam rates cut cheydam tapa naku emi telidu 

 

what is importance of them to Indian economy 

[vaade_veedu]

RBI governer emi pikkutharu baa na chala rojulu nunchi doubt... inflation rate chudatam rates cut cheydam tapa naku emi telidu 

 

what is importance of them to Indian economy 

 

RBI governer okka wrong step veste em jaruguddo alochinchu 

[DaleSteyn1]

All news channels anthey kada
They take sides.

eenadu abn.not agreed neutral

[donganaaK]

Frankly speaking Modi edi defined ga promise cheyyale, obama laane we want change congress mukt bharat annadu anthe... baga telivaina vadu

 

bro i think i followed more of his speeches than any1 else around here....

 

to be honest he promised a lot and chaala varaku he's trying to keep those promises , but 5 years time is too less ee congress gaallu chesina racha nunchi baytaki raavali antey ...

[DaleSteyn1]

RBI governer emi pikkutharu baa na chala rojulu nunchi doubt... inflation rate chudatam rates cut cheydam tapa naku emi telidu

what is importance of them to Indian economy

lol rbi governor role telvadhu neeku