India’s GDP Surges High: Records 7.2% in FY23, 6.1% in March Quarter
- Posted on June 1, 2023
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The provisional national income data declared by the
National Statistical Office (NSO) on May 31 indicates a 6.1% increase in
India's GDP in the January-March 2023 quarter.
In an official statement released on Wednesday, The National Statistical Office (NSO) stated that India's GDP grew at a rate of 7.2% in the fiscal year 2022-23 in comparison to 9.1% in the previous financial year 2021-22. According to their estimation, the Gross Value Added (GVA) has increased by 7% in 2022-23, as opposed to 8.8% in 2021-22. However, the growth of manufacturing GVA has dropped at a large rate, from 11.1% in the previous year to 1.3% in the current year.
NSO's data predicts that the real GDP for the year 2022-23
might reach the level of Rs 160.06 lakh crore. This amount is much higher in
comparison to the first revised estimates of GDP for the year 2021-22, which
was estimated at Rs 149.26 lakh crore. According to the Ministry of Statistics
and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), India's nominal GDP, which is GDP at
current prices, shot up by 16.1% in the financial year 2022-23.
Furthermore, they also reported a growth of 10.4% in India's GDP at current prices for the March quarter. Simultaneously, India's manufacturing sector witnessed a significant year-on-year growth of 4.5%, in contrast to a contraction of 1.1% in the last quarter. The country's agricultural output also rose by 5.5% during the same period in the same period as compared to a growth of 3.7% in the corresponding period.
In addition to these, the NSO has also made changes to the
GDP and GVA numbers. While they have lowered the numbers for the first half of
the financial year which now stands at 13.1%, there is an increase in the
figures for Q3. The rate of growth in Q2 is estimated at 6.2%, followed by 4.5%
growth in Q3, as compared to the earlier estimate of 4.4% in February.
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