Anyone growing up in post independence India would know how unreliable Govt numbers always would be.
This probably came from close economic and industrial association with communist USSR. Indian bureaucrats and public sector officials quickly learned the benefits of inflating numbers where production stats saw constant increases and inflation percentages were closely controlled and reflected nothing like reality. The Indian public caught on to the game when they read prices of the goods and services that went into calculation of the Consumer Price Index. Those prices had little connection to the prices they were actually paying for essential goods. Therefore I am rather surprised at all this fudging being exposed only recently while it has been going all along. Perhaps one explanation could be that the economy taking off from Manmohan Singh’s time has just seen a gradual reversal during the last 5 years of BJP’s economic disasters. So where they was no need to bloat the numbers for two decades from the 1990s, it becomes imperative for Modi and company to lie to the nation on account of the economy’s recent dismal performance that came hand in hand with the Hindutva progression. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/indias-tag-of-worlds-fastest-growing-economy-may-not-be-so-fast-after-all/articleshow/69738363.cms Roland. Toronto.
