Business | Updated Dec 12, 2007 at 10:01pm IST

Nation's industrial growth up by 7 per cent

New Delhi: Robust performance in the manufacturing sector has pushed up the country’s industrial growth to 11.8 per cent in October as against 4.5 per cent in the same month last year.

While the manufacturing sector grew by 13.3 per cent during the month, the performance of the mining and electricity sectors remained poor at 3.7 per cent and 4.2 per cent respectively.

During April-October 2007, the IIP went up by 9.7 per cent, but was marginally down from 10.1 per cent recorded in the corresponding period last year.

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