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The  Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ministry of  Statistics and Programme Implementation has released the estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the second quarter (July-September) Q2 of 2018-19  today on 30 th November. The GDP growth rate for the second quarter is 7.1% lower than the Q1 growth rate of 8.2%.  Growth in the Gross Value Added (GVA) for the second quarter was at 6.9%. The Economic Activities which registered growth of over 7 percent in Q2 of 2018-19 over Q2 of 2017-18 are ‘Manufacturing, ‘Electricity, Gas, Water Supply & Other Utility Services’, ‘Construction’ and ‘Public Administration, Defence and Other Services’. The growth in the ‘Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing’, ‘Mining and Quarrying’, ‘Trade, Hotels, Transport, Communication and Services related to Broadcasting’ and Financial, Real Estate and Professional Services is estimated to be 3.8 percent, (-) 2.4 percent, 6.8 percent, and 6.3 percent respectively during this perio...

In October month (September month collection) for the second time gross GST revenue crossed 1,00,000 crore. First time it crossed in April 2018 (March month collection). Then again collections dipped in May, June, July, August and September but remained above 90,000 crore.  However in October again collections increased and crossed 1 lakh crore. As per the Finance Ministry 67.45 lakh businesses filed goods and services tax (GST) returns in October and deposited Rs 1,00,710 crore as taxes.  "The total revenue earned by central government and the state governments after regular and provisional settlement in the month of October, 2018, is Rs 48,954 crore for CGST and Rs 52,934 crore for the SGST, the statement added.    "GST collections for October 2018 have crossed Rs 1 lakh crore. The success of GST is lower rates, lesser evasion, higher compliance, only one tax and negligible interference by taxation authorities," Finance Minister Arun Jaitley tweeted. The st...

As per the 2011 census data, Uttar Pradesh is the state having highest population while Sikkim is the least populated state. In terms of area Rajasthan is the largest state of India while Goa is the smallest state. In case of Union Territories, Andaman & Nicobar is the largest one in terms of geographical area and the Delhi comes first in terms of population. Source: Wikipedia Stay tuned for more updates. Feel free to comment. This blog is now on  Telegam . For reports on Economics, Current Affairs and more, subscribe this blog on  Telegam . You may also like to Read: State-wise Statistics : Number of Assembly, Council, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Seats https://politoeconomy.blogspot.com/2018/11/state-wise-statistics-number-of.html The Statistics Lok Sabha By-Polls Post 2014 General Elections https://politoeconomy.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-statistics-lok-sabha-by-polls-post.html Is Hindi Our National Language? https://politoec...

Total 29 Lok Sabha by polls have taken place post 2014 general elections across the country. Let's take a look at the performance of different political parties in these by- elections. Let's look at the state wise statistics. Maharashtra: Nagaland: Bihar: Jammu-Kashmir: Madhya Pradesh: Meghalaya: Telangana: Odisha: Assam: Gujarat: Punjab: Kerala: Karnataka: Rajasthan: Uttar Pradesh: West Bengal: Source: eci.nic, Wikipedia Stay tuned for more updates. Feel free to comment. You may also like to Read: State-wise Statistics : Number of Assembly, Council, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Seats https://politoeconomy.blogspot.com/2018/11/state-wise-statistics-number-of.html Schedules of Indian Constitution https://politoeconomy.blogspot.com/2016/04/schedules-of-indian-constitution.html Is Hindi Our National Language? https://politoeconomy.blogspot.com/2016/05/is-hindi-our-national-lan...

Indian is a union of 29 states and 7 union territories. Each state has its own state legislative assembly (Vidhan Sabha). But in case of Union territories only 2 have their own assembly, Delhi and Puducherry. However this is not the case with legislative council (Vidhan Parishad). Only below 7 states have their state legislative council. Andhra Pradesh Bihar Jammu & Kashmir Karnataka Maharashtra Telangana Uttar Pradesh Except Jammu & Kashmir the term of all other state legislative assembly is for 5 years. However term of Jammu & Kashmir assembly is for 6 years.   Uttar Pradesh is the biggest state in terms of State legislative assembly seats(403), Lok Sabha seats (80) and Rajya Sabha seats (31) and Sikkim is the smallest state  in terms of State legislative assembly seats . It has 32 assembly seats. Total 543 members of the Lok Sabha are the elected members and 2 are the nominated members of the Anglo Indian community by the President of...