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India’s industrial production growth slips to 3-month low of 5% in April

13 Jun 2024 Evaluate

India’s industrial production growth measured in terms of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) slipped to 3-month low of 5 per cent in April 2024, as compared with a revised estimate of 5.4% in March, mainly due to poor show by the manufacturing sector, though mining and power segments performed well. Factory output growth was 5.6 per cent in February 2024. The previous low of IIP was recorded at 4.2 per cent in January, 2024. The IIP growth rate was recorded at 4.6 per cent in April 2023. For the month of April 2024, the Quick Estimates of IIP with base 2011-12 stood at 147.7 against 140.7 in April 2023. For the fiscal 2023-24, IIP growth was 5.9 per cent against 5.2 per cent in the preceding financial year.

As per the latest data, the mining output growth accelerated to 6.7 per cent in April against a 5.1 per cent expansion in the year-ago month. The manufacturing sector’s growth decelerated to 3.9 per cent in April compared to 5.5 per cent a year ago. The power generation increased by 10.2 per cent in April against a contraction of 1.1 per cent in the same month of the last year. The Indices of Industrial Production for the Mining, Manufacturing and Electricity sectors for the month of April 2024 stood at 130.8, 144.2 and 212.0 respectively.

As per use-base classification, the output of primary goods logged a 7 per cent growth in April this year, up from 1.9 per cent a year earlier. The capital goods segment growth fell to 3.1 per cent in April 2024 from 4.4 per cent in the year-ago period. The expansion in the intermediate goods segment was 3.2 per cent in the month under review, higher than the 1.7 per cent recorded in the same period a year ago. Infrastructure/construction goods reported a growth of 8 per cent in April 2024 against a 13.4 per cent expansion in the year-ago period. In April this year, consumer durables output expanded 9.8 per cent. It had contracted by 2.3 per cent in April 2023. Consumer non-durable goods production contracted by 2.4 per cent during the reporting month as against a growth of 11.4 per cent in April 2023.

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