India's economic growth unexpectedly
slid to a three-year low in the last quarter, delivering a blow to Prime
Minister Narendra Modi who is facing criticism for disrupting business
activity through his shock cash squeeze last year.
India's GDP growth for the first quarter of the current
fiscal ended June slowed down to 5.7 per cent, from 6.1 per cent
reported for the fourth quarter of 2016-17, official data showed on
Thursday.
It was a marked slowdown from a 6.1 percent growth in the
January-March period and was far worse than the median forecast for a
6.6 percent in a Reuters poll. It was in line with the poll's lowest
estimate.
According to data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the GDP
for Q1 stood at Rs 31.10 lakh crore, or a growth of 5.7 per cent,
compared with 6.1 per cent in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal.
The drop in growth was even sharper compared to the like quarter a year ago when the country's GDP grew at 7.9 per cent.
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