GDP growth of FY21 range from a contraction of 0.4% to 3.5% growth, signaling the mystery and difficulty involved in assessing growth in a year when the economy saw its worst recession in independent India.
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) will release GDP estimate for March quarter and the full year on Monday.On one end of the curve is British multinational bank Barclays which has projected the Indian economy to expand at 3.5% in March quarter of FY21, holding that a low base and strong sequential gains helped propel GDP growth to a five-quarter high. “The resurgent covid-19 wave took the wind out of an economic recovery that was gathering momentum in Q4 FY21 (January-March)," it added.