{
  "id": 5556706,
  "title": "CEA Defends India’s 7.8% GDP Growth, Says Old And New Data Series Comparison Is Invalid",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/cea-defends-indias-7-8-gdp-growth-says-old-and-new-data-series",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-04T12:18:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/cea-defends-indias-78-gdp-growth-says-old-and-new-data-series-comparison-is-invalid"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Chief Economic Adviser V Anantha Nageswaran has dismissed criticism of India’s 7.8% real GDP growth in the first quarter of FY27, saying that attempts to calculate a lower growth rate by comparing GDP figures from different statistical series are not valid. The criticism was based on comparing last year’s Q1 GDP estimate of around ₹86 lakh crore with the latest estimate of nearly ₹88 lakh crore.…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}