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| 3. Agri and allied sector to grow at meagre 1.1% |
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| 4. Inflation pegged at 6.4% |
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| 5. Forex reserve at $128.91 billion |
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| 6. Exports growth at 25.6% |
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| 7. Exports value stands at Rs 2,74,313 crore |
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| 8. Negative growth in foodgrain production at 2.8% |
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| 9. Imports growth at 32.1% |
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| 10. Total imports value stand at Rs 3,76,815 crore |
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| 11. Industrial growth soars at 8.4% |
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| 12. Asean, China, Japan and Korea account for 19.9% trade. EU (19%) and North America (12.9%) at 2nd and 3rd spot. |
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| 13. External debt goes down to 17.8% of GDP |
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| 14. Liquidity management a concern, overhang at Rs 81,000 cr |
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| 15. Food credit grows by 15.2% |
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| 16. India heading to equitable local/STD rates |
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| 17. Higher securities investment reflect strong outlook |
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| 18. Advocates duty cuts to Asean level |
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| 19. BSNL, MTNL market share take a dip |
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| 20. FDI policy needs review |
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| 21. Non-food credit pegged at 20.1% |
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| 22. Deposit rates of five major banks up by 25 basis points |
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| 23. Housing loan rates go up |
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| 24. Prime lending rates lower by 25 to 50 basis points |
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| 25. Agriculture credit up by 30% |
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| 26. Gross bank credit marches ahead by 19.9% |
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| 27. Fiscal deficit at 4.4% of GDP |
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| 28. Revenue deficit brought down to 2.5% of GDP |
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| 29. States swap high cost Rs 92,444 cr loans with centre |
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| 30. Overall public issues grew five times to Rs 35,859 crore |
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| 31. Tele density grows at 6.6% |
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| 32. Advocates limited govt role in infrastructure |
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| 33. Gross domestic saving grew by 28.1% |
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| 34. Gross domestic investment shots by 26.3% |
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| 35. Auto and auto components sales grew by 20% |
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| 36. Electronics and IT jumped at 18.2% |
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| 37. Steel leaped ahead by 4% |
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| 38. Cement production higher by 6.81% |
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| 39. Core industries registered lower average of 5.4% |
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| 40. Railways traffic moved forward at 7.7% |
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| 41. Cargo handled at sea ports posted 11.1% growth |
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| 42. Cargo handled at airports zoomed 18.3% |
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| 43. Air passenger traffic up at 21.8% |
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| 44. Human Development Index improved to 0.595 |
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| 45. National food for work programme launched in 150 distts |
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| 46. National Rural Employment Guarantee Bill introduced |
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| 47. Labour reforms needed for increasing exports |
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| 48. Infrastructural, procedural bottlenecks growth hurdles |
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