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GDP to remain comprehensive measure to capture changes in the economic activity: Govt

05 Mar 2015 Evaluate

The government has stated that the Gross Domestic Product will remain a comprehensive measure to capture changes in the economic activity and it will not be replaced by Gross Value Addition (GVA). The GDP includes GVA plus taxes on products, including import duty and excluding subsides on the products.

The Statistics Minister V K Singh has said that GDP is a comprehensive measure of production activity in the economy, and therefore cannot be replaced by GVA. He further stated that GVA of an enterprise is measured as the value of the output minus the value of goods and services used to produce output. “On the other hand, GDP combines in a single figure all the production carried out by enterprises, government and households in the country. GDP can thus be said to be equal to the sum of GVA of all enterprises, government and households.”

As per the international practice the government began giving growth rate figures in terms of GVA after it recently introduced a new series of national accounts with 2011-12 as the new base year. As per Central Statistical Office (CSO) estimates the latest data India’s GDP growth was 6.9 percent in the fiscal 2013-14, whereas the GVA growth stood at 6.6 percent.

The CSO, in its note to the new statistical series, has identified three major changes in the way it computes national income and output. The first relates to how national GDP as a measure of what in economic parlance is referred to as incomes accruing to various “factors” of production-land, labour and capital and rewards to entrepreneurs -is calculated. The second pertains to the usage of market prices to compute GDP; while the third major change has been the introduction of a new concept of “basic prices” in order to compute the extent of gross value added (GVA) in the new methodology.

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