India's economic growth improved strongly in the three months ended March, preliminary data from the Central Statistics Office revealed Friday.
Gross domestic product rose 7.5 percent year-on-year, exceeding economists' consensus for 7.3 percent expansion.
The growth figure for the October-December quarter was revised down to 6.6 percent from 7.5 percent.
For the full year 2014-15 that ended on March 31, growth was 7.3 percent, slightly less than the 7.4 percent estimated in February after a new calculation methodology was introduced.
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