Dehradun, Sept. 3 -- faster growth, stronger buffers, and broader opportunity.
Consider the latest GDP numbers. Real GDP grew 7.8% in Q1 FY 2025-26, a five-quarter high. Crucially, this growth is broad-based: GVA is up 7.6%, with manufacturing 7.7%, construction 7.6%, and services ~9.3%. Nominal GDP expanded 8.8%. This is not an arbitrary spike; it reflects rising consumption, robust investment, and the payoff from steady public capex and logistics reforms that reduce costs across the economy.
India is now the world's fourth-largest economy-and the fastest-growing major one, outpacing even the first and second largest, the US and China. On present trajectories, we are poised to overtake Germany and become the third-largest economy in mark...