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India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is likely to grow more than 9.5% in fiscal 2021-22, as per an SBI research report. Second quarter current fiscal year GDP by National Statistical Office (NSO) released on Tuesday reported that country’s economy witnessed a growth of 8.4%. The growth in the April-June quarter this fiscal stood at 20.1%.

Gross Goods and Service Tax (GST) collection in November was recorded at Rs. 1,31,526 crores (US$ 17.5 billion), the second-highest collection in India’s tax collection history; November is the second consecutive month to cross the Rs. 1.30 lakh crore (US$ 17.2 billion) benchmark.

A robust demand, better market conditions, and increased hiring led to a rapid surge in manufacturing activities in November 2021. A private survey showed that manufacturing activities surged at their sharpest pace in 10 months. Input buying was ramped-up by companies thereby leading to the second-swiftest growth in stock purchases in the past 17 years.

India’s merchandise imports rose 57.18% YoY to US$ 53.15 billion in November 2021. India’s merchandise imports between April-November 2021 spiked 75.39% YoY to US$ 384.44 billion. The Trade deficit stood at US$ 23.27 billion in November 2021 compared to US$ 121.98 billion between April-November 2021.

Spending is expected to grow on all major IT segments in which devices will account for 43% of the total IT spending as more organizations are expected to shift from remote to a hybrid model by next year. From 2021 a 7.5% increase in device spending is to be observed which will be US$ 44 billion.