Index of Eight Core Industries (Base: 2004-05=100), January 2013
The Eight core industries have a combined weight of 37.90 per cent in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP). The combined Index was 158.7 in January 2013 with a growth rate of 3.9% compared to their 2.2% growth in January 2012. The low growth in January, 2013 was on account of negative growth witnessed in the production …