Farmers, salaried are losers despite Modi govt's faster dash on GDP track

Average income grew slower than per capita gross domestic product in four out of the last five years

The central government and the opposition have locked horns over the past two days after back-series estimates for India's GDP  showed a lower rate of growth during the UPA years than what was estimated using the earlier methodology.

The new numbers show India's economic growth rate averaged 6.7 per cent during the Congress-led UPA regime as compared to 7.3 per cent under the present government. Previous numbers had put the average growth rate during the 10-year UPA rule at 7.75 per cent.

On a day farmers gathered in the national capital to protest against government policies of the face of