New Delhi, Oct. 18 -- Union Minister of Commerce and Industries, Piyush Goyal, praised the growth of India's economy despite the turbulent international environment.

Goyal made this observation during a press conference on Saturday on the occasion of Dhanteras alongside Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Railways and Electronics & IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.

"Despite the international difficulties, in a very volatile, very turbulent international environment, India is progressing so rapidly that even the IMF had to revise its forecast upward to 6.6 per cent growth this year," Goyal said, adding that in the first quarter of the ongoing year, India saw "a historic growth of 7.8 per cent this year..."

Goyal also said that the...