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India's economy will revert to the pre-crisis growth level of 9 per cent in the next financial year.
"The Indian economy is expected to grow at 9 per cent with outside band of (+/-) 0.25 per cent in 2011-12, " Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said while unveiling the Budget proposals for 2011-12.
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Indian economy to boom, FM pegs growth at 9%
Image: Labourers try to slow down a hand cart loaded with sacks of sand at a flyover in New Delhi.Photographs: Parivartan Sharma/Reuters.
"We have to ensure along with private consumption revival in private investment is sustained and matches pre-crisis growth rates at the earliest," Mukherjee said. Indian economy has already reverted to the high growth path recorded by 8.9 per cent in the first half of the current fiscal.
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Indian economy to boom, FM pegs growth at 9%
Image: A labourer climbs down from an under-construction pillar of a flyover bridge in Mumbai.Photographs: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters.
Even the pre-Budget Economic Survey tabled in Parliament last week expected the real GDP to grow by 9 per cent (+/-0.25) in 2011-12.
For the current fiscal, the economy is expected to grow at 8.6 per cent, it said.. . .
Indian economy to boom, FM pegs growth at 9%
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Driven by good performance of agriculture and services sector, the Indian economy grew by 8.2 per cent in the third quarter of the current fiscal, up from 7.3 per cent in the corresponding period a year ago.
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Indian economy to boom, FM pegs growth at 9%
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The services sector, including financing, insurance, real estate and business services during the same period recorded a growth rate of 11.2 per cent as compared to 8.5 per cent during the same period last year.
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Indian economy to boom, FM pegs growth at 9%
Image: A worker sharpens metal instruments at a shop in Mumbai.Photographs: Arko Datta/Reuters.
Mining and quarrying growth jumped to 6 per cent in third quarter from 5.2 per cent in the same three-month period last fiscal.
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Indian economy to boom, FM pegs growth at 9%
Image: Labourers work at a construction site of a government building near the airport in New Delhi.Photographs: Reuters.
The government expects the growth to top 8.5 per cent in the current fiscal. The growth rate for the first and second quarters was unchanged at 8.9 per cent each.
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