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Bharat to help nurture India back to economic health earlier than expected: Deepak Parekh
MUMBAI : Mortgage lender HDFC Chairman Deepak Parekh on Thursday sounded confident of the pandemic-ravaged economy coming out soon, as he expects Bharat to help nurture India back to economic health earlier than the consensus forecast.Base-case forecasts by many pencil in a GDP contraction of 5% if the lockdown is lifted by July and normalcy trundles back from September, and over 7.5% in the worst case as each month of the lockdown shaves off 100 bps of the GDP."Signs of the wheels of the economy beginning to churn are evident from the following facts: unemployment rates have tapered down from their peaks in May, e-toll collections are higher, as are e-way bills, digital transactions and GST collections which are back to the ₹90,000 crore