India's Q2 growth likely to drop to 5.1%: Report
The country's second quarter growth rate is likely to drop to a nearly three and half year low of 5.1 per cent owing to sustained weakness in the industrial sector, reports say.
According to a research report by Karvy Stock Broking, "the GDP growth for the second quarter of this fiscal is estimated to drop to nearly three and a half year low of 5.1 per cent..".
This is mainly expected to be driven by sluggish growth in electricity generation and sharp drop in trade sector's growth as compared to last year, it said.
Echoing similar sentiments another domestic brokerage firm Religare said :"We expect Q2 GDP at 5.1 per cent, the lowest since March 2009, largely driven by sustained weakness in the industrial sector where we expect muted growth of 0.4 per cent".
India had been growing around 8-9 per cent before the global financial meltdown of 2008. The growth rate in 2011-12 slipped to a nine-year low of 6.5 per cent and in the quarter ended June 30, 2012, the economy grew by 5.5 per cent.
The government expects the economy to expand by 5.5-6 per cent this fiscal.
Interestingly, while growth rates are expected to slow down, inflationary pressures are likely to get fueled by festive demand and relatively low base.
"While growth is slowing down, we don't expect inflation to sustain at sub-7.5 per cent levels over the coming months..," the Religare report said.
The WPI Inflation declined marginally to 7.45 per cent in October, from 7.81 per cent in September but was way
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