New Delhi, May 26 -- India emerged as the world's fourth largest economy by overtaking Japan with $4.187 trillion GDP, NITI Aayog reported citing to International Monetary Fund (IMF) data. However, these overall GDP performance figures did not appeal to social media users online, who pointed out that this growth indicator does not reflect the widening gap between the poor and the rich and the abysmal per capita income.

Sceptical of India's rise to take over the 4th spot as the fourth largest economy of the world, netizens strongly reacted to IMF's recent figures.

A user wrote, "4th Largest Economy but water logging, pathetic roads and BMC issues alerts to stay safe home after everyone has left already for office. What's the point of GDP...