FinMin sees growth near 9 % in 07/08
Reuters | HT Correspondent, New Delhi
Feb 07, 2008 06:15 PM IST
Finance Minister P Chidambaram sees GDP growth close to 9 per cent in 2007-08, after an official estimate put growth at 8.7 per cent.
Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said on Thursday he saw gross domestic product growing close to 9 per cent in 2007/08, after a statistics office estimate put growth at 8.7 per cent for the year.
Chidambaram said he hoped the statistics office figure would be revised upwards.
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"There is some disappointment, but I am not too despondent. I am reasonably confident these numbers can only move upwards," he told reporters.
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