SHIMLA: The Himachal Pradesh economy has emerged from the Covid trough and is expected to witness real GDP growth of 8.3% in 2021-22 after shrinking in 2020-21, said chief minister Jai Ram Thakur while presenting the Himachal Pradesh Economic Survey 2021-22 in the Vidhan Sabha on Thursday.
In real terms, the increase in Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) in the pre-Covid and post-Covid era -- 2019-20 and 2021-22 -- is 2.7%.