India estimated on Friday its gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 4.4 percent in the first quarter of financial 2001/02 (April-March) from the same quarter of the previous year.
The economy grew 6.1 percent in the first quarter of 2000/01, the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) said in a statement.

It said services sector output, which contributes around 50 percent to the country's GDP grew by 9.9 percent in the April-June quarter as against 9.5 percent a year earlier.

Farm sector output grew by 2.3 percent year-on-year in April-June compared with 0.6 percent in the same quarter a year earlier, the statement said.
The manufacturing sector was estimated to have grown by 2.3 percent in the first quarter, down from 7.0 percent a year earlier. Bureau Report