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1st LD Writethru: India's GDP grows 7.9 pct in January-March quarter

Xinhua, May 31, 2016 Adjust font size:

India's GDP grew by 7.9 percent in the January-March quarter this year, or the last quarter of 2015-16 fiscal year, said official statistics Tuesday.

This also fixed the country's GDP growth rate for the whole fiscal year which ended March at 7.6 percent.

The manufacturing sector grew by 9.3 percent as was compared with 5.5 percent in the previous fiscal of 2014-15, while farms sector grew by 1.4 percent against minus 2 percent. Enditem