Core Sector grows at four month high of 3.1% in July

03 Sep 2013 Evaluate

After growing at a snail's pace of 0.1% in June, the core sector, which comprises of eight infrastructure industries, jumped to a four-month high of 3.1% in July this year, against 4.5% in same period last year, mainly on account of strong growth in steel, petroleum refinery products and electricity sectors.

The combined index of eight core industries, viz, crude oil, petroleum refinery products, natural gas, fertilisers, coal, electricity, cement and finished steel, having weightage of 37.9% in the overall Index of Industrial Production (IIP), grew  at 156.4 in July, 2013 , which was 3.1% higher compared to the index of July, 2012. However, during April-July period, the growth of eight infrastructure industries slowed to 1.9% from 6.3% in the same period last year.

Steel production, which occupies weight of 6.68%, recorded a growth of 7.0% in July, 2013 over July, 2012. The cumulative growth during April to July, 2013-14 was 4.1%.  Meanwhile, Electricity generation, with the overall weight of 10.32%, increased by 5.2% in July 2013 year-on-year and registered cumulative growth in power output in April-July period of the current financial year. Petroleum refinery production increased by 5.1%; fertilizer output grew by 0.4%; and coal output inched up by 1.2% in July 2013 as against similar month previous year.

However, contraction in output of natural gas continued this month as well, and remained at 16.1% against contraction of 16.7 in June, 2013 and 13.5% in the similar month of the previous year. Crude oil continued to contract for the fourth consecutive month and was at 2.3% against contraction of 0.7% in same period last year.

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