India's Economic Growth Drops To 5.8% In March Quarter, Behind China
- India's GDP growth in the quarter ended March 31 was much worse than economists' expectations. A survey of economists by news agency Reuters had forecast GDP growth at 6.3 per cent annually in the quarter ended March 31.
- Mr Garg added that country's growth rate, which has been hit due to weak consumption demand and private investment, will start turning around from the July-September quarter with favourable interest rates and an improvement in liquidity.
- The Ministry of Statistics revised economic growth for the fiscal year to March 31, 2019 to 6.8 per cent from 7.0 per cent estimated earlier.
- The slowdown may lead to another rate cut by the central bank in its June policy review, say economists.
- The RBI had in its bi-monthly monetary policy review in April lowered its GDP growth projection to 7.2 per cent in 2019-20, from 7.4 per cent.
- Citing "evenly balanced" risks, the RBI noted that it expects GDP to grow in the range of 6.8-7.1 per cent in the first half of current financial year, and 7.3-7.4 per cent in the second half.
- The Central Statistics Office (CSO) had earlier also projected GDP growth to average at 7.2 per cent in the financial year 2018-19.
- The RBI's monetary policy committee (MPC), which has cut policy rates by 50 basis points this year, is expected to cut the repo rate by a further 25 basis points at its June 4-6 meeting, bringing it to 5.75 per cent, the lowest since July 2010, according to Reuters.
- Retail inflation has stayed below 3 per cent for last six months, possibly low enough to take the risk of cutting rates without waiting to seeing whether the monsoon rainy season starting next month holds any danger of a spike in food prices.
- Meanwhile, the government on Friday named Nirmala Sitharaman as the next finance minister.Â
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