High growth with low inflation main challenge:
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Sunday May 22, 2011 08:53:14 PM, IANS
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New Delhi: Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh said Sunday that his government's main
challenge was to sustain the growth process while keeping
inflation under control.
Speaking at a function to mark the second anniversary of the
United Progressive Alliance-II government at his residence here,
the prime minister said the challenges faced by the government to
sustain growth process were fiscal, social, ecological and
political.
He said the country had recorded unprecedented growth of 8.5
percent during the seven years of UPA rule from 2004.
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Prime
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