How do you see recovery in the current context?We should take a cue from the capital markets. If you talk to analysts and investors in capital markets, corporate earnings for 2020-21 are a washout.
They would say we are focussing on earnings of fiscal years 2021-22 and 2022-23. We have to use similar lens with respect to GDP.
The fact is that the biggest shock of the century is in front of us. The shock isn’t going away. Virus is remaining, there is no cure, and the vaccine is far away.
Lockdown is complicated and getting out of lockdown has economic costs. If you look at the GDP growth for the current year, we had a complete close-down for the month of April.