Zee Media Bureau
New Delhi: Industrial production rose by 2.5 percent in September compared to 0.4 percent in August.
The cumulative growth for the period April-September 2014-15 over the corresponding period of the previous year stood at 2.8 percent.
The Indices of Industrial Production for the Mining, Manufacturing and Electricity sectors for the month of September 2014 remained at 116.0, 181.6 and 175.6 respectively, with the corresponding growth rates of 0.7 percent, 2.5 percent and 3.9 percent compared to last year
The cumulative growth in the three sectors during April-September 2014-15 over the corresponding period of 2013-14 were 2.1 percent, 2 percent and 10.4 percent respectively.
The retail inflation dropped to 5.52 percent in October on falling prices of food and oil, the lowest since India started computing Consumer Price Index (CPI) in January 2012.
