CEOs feel economy will recover swiftly, but Covid vaccine holds key

“The lethal second wave has not affected a lot of the financial actions because the lockdowns had been largely designed to restrict social gathering and this has helped restrict the influence of the second wave on financial progress when in comparison with the primary wave,”, stated Chandrajit Banerjee, Director-Common, CII.

About 59% of the 119 CEOs polled anticipate the restoration in gross sales for his or her firms to be higher than within the first wave, whereas 46% expressed an identical development for his or her respective business sectors.

The survey stated vaccinations maintain the important thing to mitigating the influence of the second wave on economic activity and boosting client sentiment.

Encouragingly, Indian companies are making concerted efforts to vaccinate workers as mirrored by the ballot outcomes, which reveal that 55% of workers of the polled companies have acquired at the very least the primary dose.

Assessing the patron demand for his or her sectors, 49% of the CEOs anticipate client demand to be higher within the first half of 2021-22 in comparison with the identical interval in 2019-20.

About 72% of the CEOs anticipate non-public investments to be higher within the first half of the present fiscal yr in comparison with the identical interval in 2019-20, the CII stated in an announcement, quoting the survey.