{"id":23342,"date":"2020-06-16T06:37:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T06:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=23342"},"modified":"2020-06-16T06:37:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T06:37:31","slug":"india-stares-at-the-fifth-recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/india-stares-at-the-fifth-recession\/","title":{"rendered":"India stares at the fifth recession"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Due to Covid-19 Pandemic the Central lockdown has been implemented for the entire country and now it is pulling down the economic life of the country. The current recession staring at India brings a new set of challenges. The crisis has emerged out of the blue as the country is in a lockdown, severely hampering economic activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For India this is estimated to be the worst ever contraction of GDP growth. RBI in its MPC meet acknowledged that this year&#8217;s GDP will be in negative territory but refrained from giving any numbers. However other agencies predict a sharp contraction in the range of 5%-6.8% in FY21, with the bulk of the fall estimated to be in Q1 of FY21 when quarterly GDP may contract by nearly half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key-Points:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Recession is generally defined as a fall in the overall economic activity for two consecutive quarters (six months) accompanied by a decline in income, sales and employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In independent India&#8217;s history, four such years of negative GDP growth were registered. They saw contraction of -1.2% (FY58), -3.66% (FY66), -0.32% (FY73) and -5.2% (FY80).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recession looming now is different from previous recessions as it comes with a fresh set of challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to Covid-19 Pandemic the Central lockdown has been implemented for the entire country and now it is pulling down the economic life of the country. The current recession staring at India brings a new set of challenges. 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