Fitch: The recently released GDP figures had disappointed Indians. People had not yet recovered from this shock when Fitch gave another shock to the country. This international rating agency has reduced the estimate of growth in India’s GDP in the financial year 2024-25 from seven percent to 6.4 percent. However, based on several indicators, Fitch has expressed hope that the economy will maintain momentum.

There will be momentum on the development front for the Indian economy – Fitch

Fitch believes that the economy will continue to show signs of improvement due to continued purchasing in the consumer market due to the needs of the countrymen. At the same time, the help being given by the government to digitalization and infrastructure will become the growth engine of development. However, Fitch has slightly increased this estimate for the financial year 2026 to 6.5 percent compared to 2025. Which is much less than the estimated 8.2 percent for the financial year 2024. Fitch has also clarified with this estimate that on the basis of asset performance, it can be said that the growth momentum for the Indian economy will continue.

The economy is collapsing due to low spending by the middle class.

If seen in terms of GDP growth, the second quarter of the current year was very bad. If we talk on the basis of statistics, there are signs of GDP growth of only 5.4 percent during this period. Which is the lowest in the last seven quarters. The biggest reason for this is the reduction in purchasing power of the urban middle class of the country. Due to lack of increase in income as compared to increase in inflation, this class has been forced to spend less on the necessities of life.

The central government placed employment generation in its primary economic agenda.

Till now, the urban middle class of the country has been acting as the growth engine in accelerating India’s development. The Government of India has also become alarmed by such declining estimates of economic development in the country. To overcome this obstacle of weak economic growth, the Central Government has kept employment generation in its primary economic agenda.

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