Growth in the country’s infrastructure industries slowed to 5.1 per cent in September from 5.8 per cent a year ago, but bounced back from a dismal 2.3 per cent in August this year.
The growth in six core industries - crude oil, petroleum refinery products, coal, electricity, cement and finished carbon steel - contracted also for the April-September period to 3.9 per cent from 6.9 per cent in the first half of the previous year.
The infrastructure industries have a weightage of 26.7 per cent in the overall index of industrial production.
Growth in core industries dipped in August, tracking the overall IIP, which dipped to 1.3 per cent.
Although crude oil production declined by 0.4 per cent the performance in September is slightly better than the same month last year.
Refinery products too showed a downward trend of 2.8 per cent from 6.9 per cent in September 2007.
Finished carbon stee l also registered a lower growth of 5.8 per cent compared with 9.5 per cent.
However, coal output showed better performance at 10.7 per cent in September 2008 from 6.3 per cent, while cement production rose by 7.9 per cent from 5.4 per cent.
Electricit y generation rose by merely 4.4 per cent in the period, against 4.3 per cent in September 200
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