new delhi pledging to continue structural reforms to accelerate growth finance minister arun jaitley on saturday said india has the potential to grow at 89 per cent and only a higher growth rate can end poverty with india standing out at a time of a gloomy picture of the global economy its imperative to carry on structural reforms that have been put in place he stressed the focus will be on infrastructure irrigation and farm productivity he said while speaking at the economic times global business summit here jaitley said india is one of the few economies that survived 2001 2008 and 2015 global crises we probably have a potential to have a growth which is higher than what we have achieved this 775 per cent is not our optimum range the indian normal is 89 per cent category and it is only when if you grow at that pace you can get rid of poverty he said stating that there are more than one factor supporting india he said the country has a huge human resource trained minds as well as a very large market we have potential for increasing manufacturing we have innovative skills our labour cost is not rising as they are rising in china we are not part of factor or transitions which are taking place in china he said the finance minister said the economy the world over is doing badly because of the slump in oil and commodity prices the slump suits us because we are net buyers of these he noted and therefore given these advantages what is it that we have to do to put our house in order i think the first important thing that we have to do is to carry on structural reforms he emphasised on keeping the focus on infrastructure sector irrigation improving agriculture productivity and manufacturing at the end of the day what is it that you are asking for is to get that cutting edge that you must grow at 115 per cent faster than what you are doing today he said i think with all these changes and hopefully in future rain gods being kinder to us than in the last two years it is not very difficult or impossible for india to achieve that we all know that our potential is right there therefore we have the potential