Never doubted new GDP numbers: Rajan

A day after stating that “there are problems with the way we count GDP”, Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan on Friday said he had never raised doubts over the GDP numbers and they were broadly correct.

“It was not anything about new GDP numbers or the way GDP is calculated. I think it’s broadly correct,” Rajan said. Observing that there were “no hidden messages” in his lectures, he said: “You do not have to gauge intent. I am direct when I speak.”

These comments follow another lecture Rajan gave yesterday in Mumbai before the students of the RBI-promoted Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, wherein he had said, "There are problems with the way we count GDP which is why we need to be careful sometimes just talking about growth.