7.4% GDP growth in first quarter
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30/09/2004
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Financial Express (New Delhi)
Good performance by manufacturing and trade sectors has pushed up the growth rate of gross domestic product (GDP) to 7.4% in the first quarter (April-June) of the current fiscal. GDP growth rate in the corresponding period last year was 5.3%. The Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) has put the GDP (at factor cost at constant--1993-94--prices) during April-June 2004-05 at Rs 3,52,117 crore against Rs 3,27,842 crore in the same period last year.