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July IIP rises marginally by 1.2 percent
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SME Times News Bureau | 13 Sep, 2017
Shrugging off the contraction experienced in the previous month, Indian
factory output in July rose marginally by 1.2 per cent as compared to
the same month of last year, official data showed on Tuesday.
As
per the new Index of Industrial Production (IIP), with the revised base
year of 2011-12, factory output had declined by (-)0.1 per cent during
June due to a drop in manufacturing, from a rise of 2.80 per cent
reported for May this year.
The factory output had expanded by 4.5 per cent during July of 2016. On
a year-to-date basis, the output rose by 1.7 per cent during
April-July, 2017, which was much lower than the IIP growth rate of 6.5
per cent recorded in the corresponding period of last year.
Data
released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) showed that July's
modest turnaround was mostly led by a revival in electricity, which grew
at 6.5 per cent over the same month last year, and in "Other
manufacturing" that grew at an impressive 20.9 per cent year-on-year.
Manufacturing
output, which has the maximum weightage in the overall index, inched up
at a marginal 0.1 per cent in July. The mining output during the month
in consideration rose 4.8 per cent
Among the six use-based
classification groups, the output of primary goods grew by 2.3 per cent,
consumer non-durables by 3.4 per cent and infrastructure or
construction goods by 3.7 per cent.
In contrast, the output of
intermediate goods declined by (-)1.8 per cent, consumer durables by
(-)1.3 per cent and capital goods by (-)1 per cent.
"In terms of
industries, eight out of the 23 industry groups in the manufacturing
sector have shown positive growth during the month of July 2017 as
compared to the corresponding month of the previous year," the CSO said.
"The
industry group 'Other manufacturing' has shown the highest positive
growth of 20.9 per cent, followed by 18.9 per cent in 'Manufacture of
pharmaceuticals, medicinal chemical and botanical products'... on the
other hand, the industry group 'Manufacture of tobacco products' has
shown the highest negative growth of (-)43.4 per cent," it added.
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