New Delhi, Sept. 2 -- The government on Wednesday defended its methodology for estimating national income and the robust June-quarter growth rate, saying revisions to 2025-26 GDP and divergence between price gauges reflect updated data and methods, rather than an attempt to mechanically inflate the figures.

The ministry of statistics and programme implementation (MoSPI) issued a detailed clarification in a question-and-answer format, refuting allegations of artificially pushing up the real growth rate for the three months through June to 7.8% and the nominal expansion rate to 10.3%.

The clarification also came on a day when Japanese Credit Rating Agency (JCR) raised India's sovereign rating to 'A-' from 'BBB+' and assigned it a 'stable'...