Coming in as yet another blow to the already dwindling economic growth numbers, the data on core industries showed a significant slowdown. The core industries have slowed down by half to 2.2% in April 2012 as compared to the 4.2% in the same month last year. The growth numbers of infrastructure industries in March also slowed down to 2.2% as compared to the same month last year.
Cumulatively infrastructure industries slowed down to 4.4% in 2011-12 as compared to 6.6% in 2010-11. Core industries have a weight of 37.9% in the IIP index and these dismal numbers will surely pull down the IIP numbers. The worst performers in the eight core industries were natural gas and fertilizers, which contracted by 11.3% and 9.3% respectively. Other industries, which saw contraction were crude oil production which was down by 1.3% and petroleum refinery product that shrunk by 2.8%.
Coal, steel and cement grew by 3.8%, 5.8% and 8.6% in April 2012 respectively. However, electricity generation, which is the heaviest in the Index, slowed down to 4.6% in April 2012. The core industry numbers have come in right after the dismal GDP numbers. India's GDP growth rate plunged to 9-year low, both in the March quarter at 5.3%, as well as for the entire fiscal at 6.5%. The slowdown can be attributed to both the weakening of domestic as well as global demand.
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