India's economy grows 7.2 percent year-on-year in December quarter: government

[February 28, 2018]  NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's economy <INGDPQ=ECI> grew 7.2 percent in the three months ending in December from a year earlier, faster than an upwardly revised 6.5 percent in the previous quarter, government data showed on Wednesday.

An employee works inside a garment factory in Mumbai, India February 28, 2017. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/Files

Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast an annual growth of 6.9 percent in the quarter.

India revised its 2017/18 GDP growth forecast to 6.6 percent from 6.5 percent earlier.

(This story has been refiled to fix typographical error in first paragraph.)

(Reporting by Manoj Kumar; Editing by Malini Menon)

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