NEW DELHI – India said on Friday that its economy grew 6.7% year-on-year in the April-June period, down from 7.8% in the previous three months and the slowest pace of expansion in five quarters amid a cutback in government spending before recent rounds. . general elections.
The official data released on Friday was lower than a Reuters poll of 52 economists, which pegged gross domestic product growth at 6.9% in the first quarter of the fiscal year.