The Index of Industrial Production bounced back to register a growth of 5.9 percent in November 2011 compared to the corresponding month in the previous year.

Statistics and Programme Implementation Minister Srikant Kumar Jena released this data in New Delhi today.

According to the data, the Manufacturing sector grew by 6.6 percent, Electricity registered a growth of 14.6 percent but the mining sector reported a negative growth of 4.4 percent during the corresponding period.

Mr Jena added that although there has been negative growth in capital goods, the basic goods, intermediate goods and consumer durables and non durables have registered a positive growth.