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'Economy to improve, private investment a concern'
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SME Times News Bureau | 25 Jan, 2016
The Indian economy is expected to improve in six months but private
sector investments will be a matter for concern due to sluggish
capacity utilisation and pressure on corporate earnings, the Assocham
said on Sunday.
According to an Assocham-Bizcon survey, the sales
are expected to pick up in the next six months, though earnings and
investments will stay muted.
"India Inc. hopes to see better
sales volume and improved capacity utilization in the next two quarters
but does not expect any uptick in investment and corporate earnings even
as the overall macro situation would change for better," the Associated
Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Assocham) said here citing the
survey.
Nearly 63 percent of the survey respondents felt "the state of economy would be better in the coming six months".
However,
the survey found lack of investment appetite in the private sector in
the backdrop of lower capacity utilisation, excess supply and continuous
pressure on profitability.
In terms of the domestic investment,
58.3 percent respondents felt there has been no change in the investment
plans at the level of individual companies.
"Thus there seems to be a continuing lack of appetite for new investment in the private sector," the survey said.
Going
forward, the sentiment appears to remain muted, with 62.5 percent of
respondents saying that the January-March quarter of 2016 would not see
much change in investment levels.
As many as 41.7 percent of
respondents felt there was a decline in sales volume during
October-December 2015 and expected better volumes during January to
March 2016, while 45.8 percent expect their sales volumes to increase in
future.
On the future of capacity utilisation, 66.7 percent said the industry will be engaged at higher levels.
"Global
deflationary situation creeping into India in several sectors is
hitting investor sentiment. The consumer confidence can return only if
there are more job opportunities through higher investment into
productive areas of the economy like construction, infrastructure and
manufacturing," Assocham secretary general D.S. Rawat said in the
statement.
"The lead has to be taken by the government which has
an onerous task before itself along financial sector regulators like RBI
and SEBI to ensure investor confidence in the markets which can then
feed the investment climate," he added.
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