New investment proposals were robust in five years from 2006-07 through 2010-11, according to the CMIENew Delhi:India saw the lowest number of new investment proposals since 2004-05 in the last financial year, which ended on March 31, according to a report by theCentre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), a think tank.
The report has said that this lowest figure of new investments recorded in 14 years added up to "a dismal" Rs 9.5 lakh crore.It also noted that 2018-19 would be the fourth consecutive year of decline in new investment proposals which began in 2015-16."The estimate of Rs 9.5 trillion (9.5 lakh crore) will be revised upwards in the coming weeks.
But, this is unlikely to change the fact that 2018-19 would be the year of very poor investment interest in India."Evaluating the investment trend, CMIE said that the new investment proposals were robust during the five years from 2006-07 through 2010-11 when they averaged Rs 25 lakh crore a year.
The decline, thereafter, was steep and rapid as new investment proposals dropped to just Rs 10 lakh crore by 2013-14."A new and promising government in 2014-15 reversed this decline.
Investment proposals shot up smartly in 2014-15 to Rs 21 lakh crore.
Year 2015-16 was comparable with new investment proposal announcements worth Rs 20 lakh crore.""But, this pick-up was short-lived and short of the earlier boom in terms of the total size of investments.
India never regained the investments exuberance of the earlier boom period," the report said."The share of private proposals shot up to an all-time high of 67.5 per cent in 2018-19.
But, there is a somewhat bizarre twist to this record.
One-fifth of the private sector's investment proposals made in 2018-19 are already stalled," it added.On the sector-wise distribution of new project investment proposals, the report noted that the share of manufacturing has risen to 33 per cent, from 26 per cent in the preceding two years.Correspondingly, the share of services has declined from 51 per cent two years ago, to 39 per cent.The decline in the services sectors reflects a sharp drop in new investment proposals in the roads sector.
The fall in roads projects alone account for half the fall in total new investment proposals in 2018-19, the report added.Get the latest election news, live updates and election schedule for Lok Sabha Elections 2019 on TheIndianSubcontinent.com/elections.
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