July-Sept GDP growth seen around 5%: Sources

Official GDP data for the second quarter of the current fiscal year ending March are due to for release this Friday.

New Delhi: India`s economic growth probably slowed to around 5 percent in the three months to September, slipping from 5.7 percent in the previous quarter, two government sources said, putting pressure on the Reserve Bank of India to soften interest rates.

Official GDP data for the second quarter of the current fiscal year ending March are due to for release this Friday.

"Economic growth for the second quarter is expected to be around 5 percent, mainly due to a decline in farm and industrial output growth," a senior government source, who declined to be named, told Reuters on Tuesday.

"At the most, I can see the second quarter growth hitting 5.2 percent," he said.

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