India posted annual growth of 7.3 percent on Friday, overtaking China in the first three months of 2015, but analysts warned further measures were needed to boost the economy.
The growth rate for the financial year that ended March 31, 2015 came in slightly lower than the 7.4 percent that the statistics ministry had predicted back in February.
But the news that Asia's third-largest economy grew by 7.5 percent in the fourth quarter, overtaking China, is a major boost for Prime Minister Narendra Modi a year after he was elected.