The brokerage said its proprietary index has been on an uptrend since hitting its trough during the strict lockdown in April last year.
February 15, 2021 / 09:35 PM IST
Economy
Economic activity is on the “verge of normality” after getting severely hit by COVID-19 and Indian GDP will grow at 13.5 percent in FY22, a Japanese brokerage said on Monday. The Nomura India Business Resumption Index (NIBRI) picked up to 98.1 (provisionally) for the week ending February 14, from 95.9 in the preceding week, Nomura said.
The economic impact of the pandemic is set to lead the country’s GDP to contract by 7.7 percent in FY21, and the RBI expects the GDP to jump by 10.5 percent in FY22. The brokerage said it expects the real GDP to contract by 6.7 percent in FY21, followed by a growth of 13.5 percent in FY22.
For the week to February 14, mobility indicators continue to pick up, it said. While power demand fell by 0.1 percent week-on-week, this may be likely due to a payback from the stellar 9.6 percent rise during the preceding week, it said, adding that labour participation rate inched down to 40.5 percent from 40.9 percent in the previous week.
The brokerage said its proprietary index has been on an uptrend since hitting its trough during the strict lockdown in April last year. “This supports our view that sequential momentum remains positive and that year-on-year GDP growth likely moved into positive territory, at 1.5 percent in Q4 2020 (from -7.5 percent in Q3) and 2.1 percent in Q1 2021,” it said.
The continued recovery in the index is strongly predicated on containment of the pandemic, the brokerage said, adding it is upbeat on growth prospects due to the confluence of fiscal activism, the lagged effects of easy financial conditions, base effects and faster global growth.
