India will achieve 9% GDP in 18 months: FM

PANAJI: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said India would be back in the 9 per cent growth trajectory in the next one and a half years as a result of stimulus measures announced by the government.

"There are certain economic measures taken which will start showing their results in the next one and a half years. Over this period, we will be able to come back to the 9 per cent GDP growth," Mukherjee told a gathering of industry captains in Goa.

The Finance Minister accompanied by Chief Minister Digamber Kamat addressed two official functions in the state today that also included inauguration of India's unique museum conceptualised and executed by the Customs and Central Excise Department.

Mukherjee, during the interaction with Goa's top-most industrialists, said that the government has injected substantial money into the system that will start showing the results in months to come.