FICCI quarterly survey projects subdued growth in key sectors despite festive season

09 Nov 2012 Evaluate

Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (FICCI) latest quarterly survey on manufacturing has projected subdued growth in key sectors such as automotives, textiles, chemicals and machine tools in the third quarter. However, according to FICCI’s Survey, which drew responses from 364 manufacturing units and associations, manufacturing activity is likely to see a modest growth in the third quarter of the current financial year, owing to improvement in orders. India’s manufacturing sector grew by 2.9 per cent in August after registering negative growth for two consecutive months in June and July.

The survey pointed out that sectors such as tyres, ceramics and electronics are likely to witness strong growth of more than 10 per cent in third quarter while sectors such as FMCG and food, capital goods, cement, leather and footwear would see moderate growth of anywhere between 5 to 10 per cent.

As per the survey, around 45 per cent of total respondents from large, small and medium companies surveyed expect production to be higher in the October-December as compared to 44 per cent and 46 per cent in previous two quarters of this financial year. Though the growth is expected to be low, some recovery is expected as the overall business environment will improve with the announcement of slew of reform measures by Government.

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