India’s GDP grows 20.1% in April-June

TIL Desk/Business/New Delhi/ India’s economy grew by 20.1 per cent in the first quarter of 2021-22, helped by a low base of the year-ago period, official data showed on Tuesday.               

The gross domestic product had contracted by 24.4 per cent in the corresponding April-June quarter of 2020-21, according to data released by the National Statistical Office.           

The government had imposed a nationwide lockdown at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last year.                

China has recorded a growth of 7.9 per cent in the April-June period of 2021.