The UPA government will take more steps, as well as announcing new motivation packages, to stem job losses arising out of global recession, Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath said on Tuesday.

“The government is committed to ensure whatever stimulus is needed to see that there is no loss of jobs in some sectors which are taking a hit,” Nath said in New Delhi.

On elevated cost of borrowing impeding the industrial growth, Nath said, “RBI is looking into it… my own view is that interest rates are very high; need to be reduced.”

Sectors like steel and automobile, after slowing down in November, are on their way to revival, he said.

External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who also holds charge of the finance portfolio, Minister of State for Industry Ashwani Kumar and a number of secretaries of the key economic ministries have already indicated the government may show significant fiscal measures to arouse the economy reeling under the global slowdown.

According to the government’s own estimates, over 10 lakh jobs have been lost since mid-September in exporting units and sectors like textile, automobile and leather.

Nevertheless, Nath said there was a edge to the government involvement so far as the harms are arising from corrosion of require in the developed countries. “The government cannot resolve the global economic problem,” he said.