Core Sectors

Core sector output at 13-month high in May at 18.1% on capex push

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

Output of eight core sectors at 3.7% in Jan: Govt data

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

Core sectors output slows in Nov to 3.1% month-on-month: Govt data

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

Eight core sectors' output grows to 7.5% in October

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

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Eight core sectors' output grows to 7.5% in October

Core sector growth was 4.5% in September

Output of eight core sectors increases 4.4% in September

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

Eight core sectors' output accelerates to 11.6% in August: Govt data

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

Eight core sectors' output up 11.6% in August year-on-year: Govt data

The industries had contracted by 6.9 per cent in August 2020

Core sectors' output soars by 56.1% in April due to low base effect

But it is down 15% sequentially due to second wave

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Eight core sectors' output grows 56% in April on low base effect

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

At 4.6% in Feb, core industries show sharpest contraction in six months

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

Output of 8 core infra sectors contracts 8.5% in Aug, drops for sixth month

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

Eight core industries output down 4th month in a row, shrinks 15% in June

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

Covid-19 impact: India's eight core sectors output contracts 23.4% in May

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

Q4 GDP data released today: Key things to note

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

Eight core industries' output shrinks 6.5% in March amid Covid-19 lockdown

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

Covid-19 woes: Allow limited activity in select sectors, DPIIT tells govt

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

At 2.2% in January, core sector output up for second straight month

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