The economy grew 5% in the year ended March, the slowest pace in a decade, in line with the projection of the statistics office. Growth in the fourth quarter slowed to 4.8% from 5.1% a year ago.

During the year, agriculture grew at 1.9% compared with 3.6% a year ago, manufacturing at 1% against 2.7%, the trade, communication sector at 6.4% compared with 7%, while community services measuring government expenditure picked up to 6.6% from 6% a year ago, according to data released by the Central Statitstics Office. Read More

Jyothi Shankaran

    Jyothi’s last role was as Senior Editor with the business news channel Bloomberg TV India. He also worked as News Editor at business-standard.com, the online version of the business newspaper Business Standard. Jyothi is a chemical engineer from the Regional Engineering College, Srinagar.