AMN / New Delhi
Gross Domestic Production growth will be at 6 point 5 per cent for the current Financial Year 2017-18 (FY18), according to advance estimates of Central Statistics Office. The GDP growth in the previous fiscal (FY 17) was at 7.1 per cent.
Briefing media persons here on Friday, Chief Statistician T C A Anant said that the next two quarters of the financial year will have a GDP growth of 7 per cent which will be better than the first two quarter of the fiscal.
The GDP growth rate for the first quarter of FY18 fell to a three-year low of 5.7 per cent. It was said that this had happened in expectation of implementation of Goods and Services Tax from July 1, this year. In the second quarter, the economy showed signs of revival as the GDP growth rate picked up and stood at 6.3 per cent.