FM Nirmala Sitharaman meets representatives of infrastructure sector

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and senior ministry officials met representatives of the infrastructure sector on Wednesday, the latest of the many sectoral meetings she has had in the past one month. 

The meeting came in the backdrop of India’s gross domestic product growth slumping to six-year low of 5 per cent in the April-June quarter. Experts have said a capital expenditure boost focused on infrastructure by the private sector, and the government is a way out of the slowdown as the centre looks to create jobs.

In his Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said the Centre will invest Rs