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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Singapore Asia Pacific World Search Search: India's economic growth accelerates to 6.1 percent By ERIKA KINETZ,AP Business Writer AP - Tuesday, September 1 MUMBAI, India - India's economy picked up pace in the latest quarter as government spending helped to overcome the worst of the global downturn but drought threatens to stall the recovery. ADVERTISEMENT Growth in gross domestic product accelerated to 6.1 percent from a year earlier in the April-June quarter from 5.8 percent in the previous quarter, the government's Central Statistical Organisation said Monday. The uptick signals that the worst effects of the global financial crisis may have passed for Asia's third-largest economy. India's relatively low dependence on exports meant that it weathered the global economic storm better than many countries. Yet economists and policy makers now worry that the domestic engine of the economy is under threat from weak rains, which could dent the recovery and trigger food price inflation. "The worst in terms of the external-led downturn is over," Sherman Chan, an economist at Moody's Economy.com said by phone from Sydney. "What is more of a threat now is domestic concerns, coming from the drought." She worries that the drought will have knock on effects through the economy over the next half year, as declining agricultural output reduces demand for transportation and storage, hits both exports and domestic trade, and reduces incomes for hundreds of millions of Indians who rely on farming for their livelihoods. While agriculture accounted for just 16.3 percent of India's GDP from April-June, some 65 percent of the population depend on it as their main source of income, according to Citigroup. Monsoon rains from June 1 through August 19 are 26 percent below normal, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, and drought has been declared in at least 44 percent of India's districts according to news reports. Growth of agriculture and related industries slowed to 2.4 percent during the April-June quarter, down from 3.0 percent that same period last year, the Central Statistical Organization said. Cotton production is down 10.5 percent this season from last year and sugarcane output shrank 22.1 percent. The quarterly rebound was led by mining and financial services, which grew 7.9 percent and 8.1 percent respectively. There have also been signs of a turnaround in manufacturing, which grew 3.4 percent during the quarter, after contracting by 1.4 percent the prior quarter. Output is still weaker than it was during the June quarter last year, when manufacturing grew 5.5 percent. Government spending grew to 9.9 percent of GDP during the quarter, up from 9.6 percent during the same period last year, while private consumption fell from 58.0 percent to 55.6 percent and exports shrank from 26.5 percent to 22.3 percent of GDP, the CSO said. Gross fixed capital formation, a measure of investment _ which economists say is crucial for a sustainable recovery _ was 31.6 percent of GDP for the quarter, down from 32.2 percent the same quarter last year. Markets gave the GDP data _ which narrowly missed consensus estimates of 6.2 percent quarterly growth _ a tepid welcome. The Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark Sensex index fell 2 percent, or 322 points, to 15,598 in midafternoon trade. Last year, India's economy expanded by 7.8 percent during the April-June quarter. Growth for the fiscal year ending March 31 skidded to 6.7 percent, its worst since 2003. From 2003-2008, India's economic growth averaged 8.8 percent a year. The Reserve Bank of India is predicting 6.0 percent economic growth for the current fiscal year, but says that target could be exceeded. -- Associated Press Writer Ashok Sharma in New Delhi contributed to this report. 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