Back series GDP figures are not official estimates, formal data will be released later: MoSPI
(WorldNews Business)

Amid ongoing controversy over the back series GDP figures showing better economic performance during the UPA regime, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) today said "these are not official estimates" and the data will be released officially later. As per the back series data on GDP based on the report of Committee on Real Sector Statistics, Indian economy clocked a 10.08 per cent growth rate in 2006-07 under the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the highest since liberalisation of the economy in 1991. Commenting on the back series data, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram had said...