Why Indians borrowing more and saving less shouldn’t worry you

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

DK Joshi, Chief Economist, CRISIL, says what is currently playing out is that when the households put money in financial assets, they are moving a little away from the bank deposits towards higher paying assets like mutual funds or stocks or for that matter they could be acquiring more gold right now, and so there is that change of preference taking place towards financial assets that offer you higher returns that could even be small savings.
You have come out with a note where you have made some observations regarding the citizens and the country's working class and their savings versus borrowing behaviour. What is a bit surprising and I would say a bit worrying also is that the borrowing growth rate is way higher than savings growth rate. Is it a worrying trend?
DK Joshi: What happened since the pandemic struck is that during the pandemic we had no option to consume, so we were saving. After that, savings slowed down a bit and consumption picked up. That was the broad trend. But coming to the savings part, there are two things happening.

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One, the financial households account for about 60% of the total savings. They are very closely tracked. Households save either in physical assets or in financial assets or in gold and silver. So, what we have found in the last few years is