NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's economic growth accelerated to 7.5 percent in the three months through March from a revised 6.6 percent in the previous quarter, government data showed on Friday.
Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast annual growth of 7.3 percent in the quarter.
For the 2014/15 fiscal year ending in March, growth came in at 7.3 percent compared with an earlier official estimate of 7.4 percent. Growth was 6.9 percent in 2013/14.
(Reporting by Rajesh Kumar Singh; Editing by Douglas Busvine)
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