CRISIL lowers GDP growth forecast for fiscal 2021 to 3.5 percent Nitin Yadav 5 years ago CRISIL has cut its base-case Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth forecast for fiscal 2021 to 3.5 percent from 5.2 percent expected earlier. The past days have noticed global growth forecasts cut and financial markets heaving as the Covid-19 pandemic spread geometrically.