India Has Started Importing Tomatoes From Nepal
India has
started importing tomatoes from Nepal, said Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
while speaking during the no confidence motion debate in the Parliament on
Thursday amid soaring prices of Tomatoes.
Finance
Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told the parliament that the first lot of imports
is expected to reach in the northern Indian cities of Varanasi, Lucknow, and
Kanpur by Friday.
India is fastest growing
economy, says FM
Sitharaman
in her speech also spoke that the global economy grew just over 3 per cent in
2022 and the World Bank has forecasted the growth to decline to 2.1 per cent in
2023. She spoke about the struggle of global economies with the twin challenges
of inflation and slow rate.
While giving her
speech she also spoke about Morgan Stanley upgrading India to a higher rank.
Sitharaman said, “In 2013, Morgan Stanley had included India in the list
of five fragile economies of the world. India was declared a fragile economy.
Today, the same Morgan Stanley upgraded India and gave it a higher rating. In
just 9 years, the economy rose and saw economic development due to the policies
of our government – despite COVID. Today, we are the fastest growing economy of
the world.”
