Budget: India eyes 7.2-7.5 per cent growth

• Rithika Siddhartha
• 01 February, 2018

By: Rithika Siddhartha

INDIA is expected to register a growth rate of 7.2-7.5 per cent in the second half of the current fiscal year and is on way to becoming the 5th largest economy of the world, finance minister Arun Jaitley said today (1) as he presented the federal budget. Unveiling the budget for 2018-19, the minister said that India has grown on an average of 7.5 per cent in the first three years of the current government and has become a $2.5 trillion economy. “We hope to grow at 7.2 to 7.5 per cent in the second half of the current fiscal,”…

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