What Are the Economic Reforms of 1991?
Economic reforms of 1991 were aimed at improving the economic condition of India. For this the following steps were taken:
1.Fiscal reforms: Government aimed at reducing the fiscal deficit to 6.5 % of GDP from the existing 8.4%.
2.Reducing the Statutory Liquid Ratio (SLR) and CRR (Cash reserve ratio)
3.Guidelines for opening new private sector banks were provided.
4.Licensing raj was abolished which was a bottleneck in industrial development
5.New Industrial Policy was launched in July 1991
6.SEBI (Securities Exchange Board of India ) was given recognition as the body responsible for trading in securities.
7.Indian economy was opened by LPG policy in order to attract foreign investment.
8.Devaluation of the currency (rupee).
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