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Congress Manifesto 2014 Highlights

By:  Tupaki Desk   |   26 March 2014 1:41 PM GMT
Congress Manifesto 2014 Highlights
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Congress Manifesto 2014 Highlights

* Aim to reduce the fiscal deficit to 3% of GDP by FY17

* 100% electricity access in urban areas and 94% in rural areas

* Achieve 10% growth in the manufacturing sector

* Expanding the rights-based program – to offer the right to housing and the right to healthcare

* Committed to higher support prices for farmers

* Infrastructure and growth

* Independent regulator for natural resources

* Restore real GDP growth to above 8% within the next three years

* Set up the National Investment Facilitation Panel headed by the Prime Minister

* Invest USD 1trn in the infrastructure sector over the next decade

* Job creation and growth

* To unveil a new job creation agenda

* To create consensus on private sector job reservation

* Fiscal and tax policies

* Implement Goods and Services Tax (GST) and Direct Tax Code (DTC) within one year

* Give subsidies only where absolutely necessary

* Abolish all export taxes

* Ensure risk of retroactive taxes is avoided. Ensure foreign companies pay tax where profits earned

* Price stability and financial sector reforms

* RBI must balance price stability and growth concerns

* Immediately implement all the recommendations of the Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Committee (FSLRC)


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