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Do not want businesses to shut, will help revive: Sitharaman to India Inc

Addressing industry representatives, Sitharaman said India's macro-economic indicators were on a solid footing

India’s annual economic growth slowed to 4.5% in the July-September quarter
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India’s annual economic growth slowed to 4.5% in the July-September quarter | Photo: Bloomberg

Arup Roychoudhury New Delhi
Finance Minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday assured India Inc that the government would help revive businesses as it did not want any company to shut down, and urged industry to come out of “self-doubt”. “This government does not want businesses to close. We want to help them to be revived by legislative and other administrative changes... we are with you. I want this mood of self-doubt to be completely removed from your minds,” the FM said at an event by industry body Assocham.

“Several steps (have been) taken post-Budget which were essentially responding to industry and some of them

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