{"id":166438,"date":"2025-01-29T17:55:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T12:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=166438"},"modified":"2025-01-29T17:55:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T12:55:45","slug":"india-losing-momentum-of-much-hyped-economic-growth-warn-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/01\/29\/india-losing-momentum-of-much-hyped-economic-growth-warn-experts.html","title":{"rendered":"India losing momentum of much-hyped economic growth, warn experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-166439 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Moodys-India-Projection-down.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"885\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/01\/Moodys-India-Projection-down.jpg 885w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/01\/Moodys-India-Projection-down-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/01\/Moodys-India-Projection-down-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/01\/Moodys-India-Projection-down-390x220.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 885px) 100vw, 885px\" \/>New Delhi: Economic experts have warned that India\u2019s much-hyped economic growth under Narendra Modi is losing momentum, exposing deep structural weaknesses despite the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)\u2019s rhetoric of economic success.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, with growth projected to slow to 6.4% in FY 2024-25\u2014the lowest in four years\u2014fiscal mismanagement, declining investments, and weakening demand have cast serious doubts on Modi\u2019s economic policies.<\/p>\n<p>According to economists, while Modi\u2019s government boasts of economic expansion, real wages remain stagnant, and agricultural incomes continue to shrink, triggering mass protests by farmers in Punjab and Haryana.<\/p>\n<p>The rupee has depreciated by 3% against the US dollar, and foreign reserves have plunged by $65 billion, reflecting growing investor distrust. Youth unemployment has reached alarming levels, with 46% of people aged 20-24 jobless.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, small businesses suffer as Modi\u2019s favored industrialists, including Adani, monopolize government-backed deals.<\/p>\n<p>Experts argue that without major structural reforms, India\u2019s economy will remain trapped in rising inequality, slowing industrial growth, and empty nationalist slogans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Economic experts have warned that India\u2019s much-hyped economic growth under Narendra Modi is losing momentum, exposing deep structural weaknesses despite the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)\u2019s rhetoric of economic success. According to Kashmir Media Service, with growth projected to slow to 6.4% in FY 2024-25\u2014the lowest in four years\u2014fiscal mismanagement, declining investments, and weakening &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/01\/Moodys-India-Projection-down.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}