New Delhi: Industrial output growth surged 2.5 per cent in March compared to a contraction of 2.8 per cent in same month last year, government data showed on Friday. The figures are higher than the February data when it stood at 0.6 per cent.
Industrial output grew at a meagre rate of one per cent in 2012-13 compared to 2.9 per cent in the previous fiscal.
The industrial output, as measured by the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), had increased 2.4 per cent in January against a contraction of 0.6 per cent, which at that time had given indication of a revival.
Manufacturing, which constitutes about 76 per cent of industrial production, grew 3.2 per cent from a year earlier, the statistics office said. Capital goods production, a barometer for investments in the economy, grew an annual 6.9 per cent from a year earlier. In the April-March period, industrial production expanded an annual 1.0 per cent....
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New Delhi: India's industrial output rose at a meagre 0.6 per cent in February against an expansion of 4.3 per cent in the corresponding month of 2011-12, government data showed on Friday. Barring consumer goods, all other sectors of the industrial output basket declined. The performances of the mining, electricity and consumer non-durables sectors were disappointing, indicating the continuing slowdown in Asia's third largest economy. The industrial output, as measured...
09:58 PM, Apr 12, 2013
New Delhi: Even as he described the industrial growth figure for February as "very low", Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia took heart that it was not in the negative, and expressed confidence that India's economic growth would be higher in the current fiscal. "I think it (IIP growth in February) is consistent to what we have been saying that 2012-13 was not a good year and (the economic...
04:03 PM, Apr 12, 2013
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11:32 AM, Apr 12, 2013
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11:41 AM, Mar 12, 2013
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05:28 PM, Feb 19, 2013
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02:03 PM, Feb 19, 2013
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08:35 PM, Feb 18, 2013
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04:46 PM, Feb 18, 2013
Indian economy would grow at a rate of between 5 and 5.5 per cent in current fiscal and could expand by 7 per cent in 2013-14, said Plan panel Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia. ...
11:27 AM, Feb 17, 2013
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10:06 PM, Feb 15, 2013
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11:42 AM, Feb 12, 2013
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11:33 AM, Jan 11, 2013
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11:58 AM, Dec 12, 2012
Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia expressed his disappointment over the industrial production output figures that came out on Monday. Indicating persistent sluggishness in the economy, industrial production contracted by 0.4 per cent in September due dismal show by manufacturing sector and decline in consumer as well as capital goods output. ...
07:22 PM, Nov 12, 2012
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02:59 PM, Nov 12, 2012
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