The government has defended the 7.6 per cent GDP growth put out by the Central Statistical Office, CSO calling it a professional organisation with high integrity.<br/><br/>In an interview to PTI, Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha cited IMF chief Christine Lagarde's complete faith in the numbers put out by the CSO and said it is puzzling why people are questioning the CSO's motive. While CSO has estimated that India's GDP grew at 7.6 per cent in 2015-16, retaining the tag of world's fastest-growing major economy for the second year in a row, the data has been questioned by some experts.<br/><br/>The Minister said, the CSO is an outstanding professional institution and it is completely independent of the government. He said, the organization is doing the best it can to collect and process GDP and other economic data. <br/>Mr Sinha hit back at critics for attaching motives to CSO data by saying that Government may question critics's data and their analysis.