Government to release Sept 2025 quarter GDP data today:Check out Indian economy’s performance since COVID-19 pandemic

The National Statistical Office (NSO) is all set to release India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate for the second quarter (Q2) of the financial year 2025-26 (FY26) at 4 pm on Friday, 28 November 2025.

Lets see how India’s GDP fared in April-June 2025 quarter?
According to the NSO, India’s real GDP had shot up to 7.80% in April-June 2025-26 from 7.40% in Q1 FY25.
India clocked 5.6% GDP in Q2 FY25:
In year ago quarter ie in Q2 FY25, the country’s economy had expanded at a rate of 5.6%.
Lets see what analysts says regarding how much GDP will India clock in Sept 2025 quarter?
UBI ICICI Bank forecast 7.5% growth in Q2 FY26:
According to the news agency ANI, India’s economic growth is expected to come in strong for the second quarter of the current financial year, with GDP likely to rise 7.5%, according to a report by Union Bank of India and ICICI Bank.
Reasons behind anticipation of high GDP growth rate in Q2 FY26:

The report further stated that a favourable base effect and subdued deflator growth, which boosted Q1 GDP, continued to act as drivers in the second quarter as well.
How Indian economy fared since Covid? The COVID-19 pandemic hit India hard, causing the economy to shrink. But since then, India has been on a path to recovery. Let’s take a look at how the economy has grown. The Big Dip: How COVID Hurt the Economy In 2020, when the pandemic started, India’s economy took a big hit. Lockdowns and restrictions meant businesses had to close, people lost jobs, and overall spending went down. This led to a shrinking of the GDP, which is the total value of goods and services produced in a country. In the Covid year ie FY21, the GDP had shrinked by 5.8%. But after that, there was no looking back. The Rebound: Economy Starts to Grow Again After the initial shock, things started to improve. As the lockdowns eased and people started getting vaccinated, businesses began to reopen. The government also took steps to help the economy, like spending money on infrastructure projects and providing support to small businesses.
As a result, the GDP growth rate rose to as high as 9.70% in FY22. Albeit, in the fiscal after that, the metric fell to 6.5%. And, in the current financial year, the GDP is expected to be in the range of 6.5% – 7.0% as per projections made by most of the international and domestic financial organisations. ​