Story in numbers: Modi fares better than Manmohan in controlling inflation

Exports in the last year of the NDA government rose just 5.3 per cent compared to the terminal year of UPA-2

The first stint of the Narendra Modi government is leaving behind half the inflation rate for its second avatar compared to what it got from the UPA-2. UPA 1 had also handed over a high inflation rate of more than 8 per cent to its second variant. The NDA government , however, could not accelerate the economic growth rate much. It is officially projected to be just 7 per cent for FY19, which is only 0.6 percentage point higher than what UPA-2 had left for the NDA in the so-called policy paralysis year. Though exports growth at the final year