Modi's propaganda is always so wonderful. Whenever the GDP growth rate cannot reach the imagination, he starts using all kinds of beautiful terms to manipulate the data.
frequent revisions by India’s government statistical agencies did not stop, and they sparked multiple rounds of controversy
2019: The government raised fiscal year 2016-17 growth from 7.1% to 8.2%, and raised fiscal year 2017-18 growth from 6.7% to 7.2%.
2021: Initial estimates of total 2021 GDP were adjusted multiple times, from an initial $2.9 trillion to $3 trillion and then to $3.17 trillion.
2022: Fiscal year 2020-21—the first pandemic year—was revised upward from -7.3% to -6.6%, while fiscal year 2019-20 growth was revised downward from 4% to 3.7%.
2024: Fiscal year 2023-24 GDP growth was substantially revised upward, from an initial 8.2% to 9.2%, a 100-basis-point increase.
2025–2026: The GDP base year was again updated, to fiscal year 2022-23, and new methods such as the IMF-recommended “double deflation” approach were adopted. However, under the new method, nominal GDP for the second quarter of 2025 was revised down by 6 trillion rupees (about $63.5 billion). This “technical downward revision” was criticized by former Finance Minister Subhash Chandra Garg and others as a means of artificially inflating the year-on-year growth rate for 2026, and they called it a “statistical trick.” Garg noted that, excluding this revision, real growth in the second quarter of 2025 might approach zero.