Absolutely No Politics: Surjit Bhalla Rejects Claims of GDP Data Manipulation

‘₹86 lakh crore Q1 GDP estimate of last year based on old methodology’

The fact that we didn’t have an upward revision to India’s FY26 GDP numbers under new methodology shows we are doing a good job covering all sectors, says CEA Anantha Nageswaran

Absolutely no politics: Surjit Bhalla rejects claims of GDP data manipulation

India’s revised GDP numbers have triggered questions over repeated revisions and the 7.8% growth rate. Surjit Bhalla explains why consumption, investment and imports offer a different picture of the data.

Surjit Bhalla writes: GDP data critics protest too much

As it happens, the data turns out to support the government rather than the knee-jerk opposition

Ex-Chief Economic Adviser Backs GDP Data, Calls Methodology "Cutting-Edge"

Krishnamurthy V Subramanian dismissed the Opposition's charge that the government deliberately revised last year's GDP numbers downward, so that this year's growth rate would be artificially inflated.