NEW DELHI, May 31 (Xinhua) -- The Indian economy posted a GDP growth rate of 7.7 percent during the quarter January-March 2018, according to official data released on Thursday.

This is the highest GDP growth rate since the two major economic policies of demonetisation and GST (goods and services tax) were introduced by the government in November 2016 and July 2017, respectively.

It's also more than the 7.2 percent growth rate achieved in the quarter October-December 2017. For the whole of 2017-18, the country's GDP growth registered was 6.7 percent.?