The International Monetary Fund (IMF) lowered India's potential growth prediction to 6% last week, citing the pandemic as the reason.
Sitharaman said that the next year's increase would be somewhere between 8% and 9%, with a range of 7.5 to 8.5%.
Since March 2020, the RBI has kept the repo rate at 4%, due to its focus on supporting the economy
Industrial production has been hit due to the coronavirus pandemic since March last year when it had contracted 18.7%
The central bank, in its annual report for 2020-2021, said that previous year has left a scar on the economy
India has been witnessing a severe second wave with daily new cases more than 3.5 lakh for the past 9 days
The pandemic caseload in India has been surging hitting new records everyday for the past fortnight