The Index of Core Industries (ICI) constitutes a bit of over 40% of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP).
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The development of eight key infrastructure sectors slowed to a 15-month low of three.6% in January, pushed by a contraction in fertiliser and refinery manufacturing together with base results from 2023 when the core sectors had grown 9.7% in the identical month.
The Commerce and Industry Ministry, which launched the info on February 29, additionally upgraded the expansion fee of eight core sectors — coal, crude oil, pure fuel, refinery merchandise, fertiliser, metal, cement and electrical energy — for December 2023 to 4.9% from the 14-month low of three.8% estimated earlier.
The earlier low degree of development fee was recorded at 0.9% in October 2022.
Cumulatively additionally, the expansion fee within the output of those sectors slowed all the way down to 7.7% as towards 8.3% in April-January 2022-23.
The Index of Core Industries (ICI) constitutes a bit of over 40% of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP).
Sequentially, output rose for the second straight month and have been 2.2% larger than December 2023. In absolute phrases, output ranges have been at a ten-month excessive.
While refinery merchandise, with a 28% weightage within the ICI, dropped 4.3% in January, marking their first contraction in 9 months, electrical energy era with a 20% weightage, recovered from a mere 1.2% uptick in December to rise 5.2% in January.
Coal output development slowed barely to 10.2%, however nonetheless clocked the seventh straight month of double-digit development. Crude oil manufacturing broke a two-month streak of contractions to register a minor 0.7% development in January.
(with inputs from PTI)
Source: www.thehindu.com
