India has registered the steepest contraction of its GDP post Independence for the April-June quarter of the current financial year. As per the data released by the National Statistics Office (NSO), India slumped 23.9% down as compared to the previous quarter (Jan-March) where it registered a growth of 3.1%.
India has the highest downfall of GDP followed by UK and Malaysia. At the same time, China has registered a growth of 3.2% although the country epicentres the pandemic. All the major sectors have contracted except for agriculture. Construction recorded the highest downfall of 50.3% followed by Hotels (47%) as per the quarterly estimates of GVA.
The important sector of manufacturing also recorded a decrease of 39.3%.The downfall of the economy comes amid the COVID-19 induced lockdown, where economic activity was halted throughout the country. The data indicates thebenchmark on the state of India’s economy after the pandemic.
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