Core Sectors

The data shows broad-based improvement in core sector growth benefitting from a low base, with the exception of coal

Production of eight infrastructure sectors expanded by 3.7 per cent in January against 1.3 per cent in the same month last year on better show by coal, natural gas and cement industries

In October, core sectors' output had grown by 8.4%

The core sector grew 6.9 per cent, compared with the pre-Covid month of October 2019

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Core sector growth was 4.5% in September

The eight core industries comprise 40.27 per cent of the weight of items included in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP)

The core sector in August this year recorded a 3.9 per cent rise from the pre-covid August 2019 too

The industries had contracted by 6.9 per cent in August 2020

But it is down 15% sequentially due to second wave

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In March this year, the eight sectors had recorded a growth rate of 11.4 per cent.

All the core segments, including coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products and fertilisers witnessed a decline in February

Barring coal and fertiliser, all sectors -- crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, steel, cement and electricity -- recorded negative growth in August

The eight core sectors had expanded by 1.2 per cent in June 2019, govt data showed

Infrastructure output, which comprises eight sectors including coal, crude oil and electricity and accounts for nearly 40% of the country's industrial output, contracted 30% in April and May

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India's gross domestic product for the fourth quarter of the financial year 2020 grew at 3.1 per cent, its slowest pace in at least two years

The eight core sectors had expanded by 5.8 per cent in March 2019

The exit plan from the lockdown is recommended after getting suggestions from a detailed interaction with various states and industry bodies, the letter said.

Core output had contracted for four months till November as a broad-based decline gripped most sectors