After registering modest growth in July, the country's industrial production slowed down to 0.6 per cent in August this year . It is mainly on account of a contraction in manufacturing and mining. Factory output, which showed some signs of recovery after recording a growth of 2.8 per cent in July, remained almost flat year-on-year because of a slump in production of consumer goods and durables.The output, measured on the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), was 2 per cent in August last year. As per the data released by the government today, IIP forApril-August this fiscal worked out to be 0.1 per cent as compared to 0.2 per cent in the same period of 2012-13.The manufacturing sector, which constitutes over 75 per cent of the index, contracted by 0.1 per cent in August as against 2.4 per cent in the year-ago period. During April-August, the sector saw a decline of 0.1 percent compared with a flat growth in the same period last year.The mining sector, showed a contraction of 0.2 per cent in August as against a decline of 0.3 per cent in the same month of last fiscal. However, power generation showed a healthy growth of 7.2 per cent in August and the cumulative growth in the sector during April to August period remained at 4.5 per cent.As per data, output of capital goods showed a decline of 2 per cent as against a contraction of 4.4 per cent in August 2012.