Are India's falling consumer spending and strong GDP growth in sync?

At the macro level, a similar dichotomy is visible in two sets of data released by the same institution, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation

The government on Friday cited a discrepancy between the national accounts numbers and findings of the survey report of 2017-18 on consumer expenditure as one of the reasons for scrapping the latter.

However, the consumer expenditure estimates (derived from the gross domestic product data) produced by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), historically had divergence with the survey reports on consumer expenditure, conducted by the National Statistical Office (NSO). 

The two bodies are arms of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementations (MoSPI).

Consider this double dichotomy. The NSO’s consumer expenditure survey of 2017-18 showed a contraction in consumer spending on