India's Gross Domestic Product ,GDP has grown at 5.7 percent in the first quarter of the current financial year. It is the highest growth recorded during the last 9 quarters. The GDP growth in the last quarter of 2013-14 was at 4.6 Per cent.

According to the Central Statistics Office, data released on Friday, the growth rates in manufacturing sector stood at 3.5 per cent and the mining sector 2.1 per cent. However, the services sector grew at 6.8 Percent and industrial at 4.2 percent. Whereas, the Agricultural sector growth dipped to 3.8 percent from 6.3 per cent of previous quarter in 2013-14