The BJP targeted the BJD Government for dipping growth rate in the State after the Economic Survey Report tabled in the Assembly on Monday projected that the GSDP in 2019 -20 would come down to 6.16 per cent from 7.90 per cent in 2018-19.
State BJP president Samir Mohanty told reporters that the GSDP in the State has been decreasing constantly from 7.94 per cent in 2015-16 to 7.14 per cent in 2016-17.
Mohanty told that the contribution of the services sector to the economy too has decreased from 45.25 per cent in 2018-19 to 40.51 per cent in 2019-20. Similarly, the contribution of agriculture and allied sector too is 19.90 per cent. While 62 per cent of the population of the State is farmers, the negligible contribution of the farming sector has pointed out their wretched conditions, told Mohanty.
He also flayed the galloping loan burden which is calculated to be Rs 1,6,526 crore by the end of this financial year. Mohanty told that though the per capita income has increased compared to the previous year, but it is still less than the rate of other States and national average. Mohanty told that the poverty alleviation slogan of the State Government was hollow and a mere self advertisement.