NEW DELHI: India's GDP (gross domestic product) growth for the January-March (Q4) quarter slowed to 5.8 per cent from 6.6 per cent in the previous (October-December) quarter, government data showed on Friday. This is the slowest
GDP growth rate in five years, due to poor performance in agricultural and manufacturing sectors. The previous low was 6.4 per cent in 2013-14.
Meanwhile, India's
unemployment rate rose to 6.1% in 2017/18 fiscal year, according to data released by the statistics ministry.
The announcement of GDP figures meant that India lost its place as the world's fastest-growing major economy to China, which is currently on 6.4 percent growth.
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) also revealed that GDP growth during 2018-19 fiscal stood at 6.8 per cent, lower than 7.2 per cent in the previous financial year.
Confirming unemployment rate projected in a pre-election leaked report, the government on Friday said joblessness in the country was 6.1 per cent of total labour force during 2017-18, the highest in 45 years.
The data released by the labour ministry, on a day when Modi 2.0 Cabinet took charge, showed 7.8 per cent of all employable urban youth being jobless, while the percentage for the rural was 5.3 per cent.
The joblessness among male on all India basis was 6.2 per cent, while it was 5.7 per cent in case of females.
(With agency inputs)
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