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Industrial production growth dips 4.1 % in Feb 2012 against 6.7 % in Feb 2011

Industrial production growth slowed to 4.1 per cent in February this year, mainly due to poor performance of manufacturing sector and consumer goods segment.Growth in factory output, as measured by the Index of Industrial Production, IIP was higher at 6.7 per cent in February 2011.According to the official data released today, besides the IIP growth has been revised downwards to 1.14 per cent in January, from the provisional estimates of 6.8 per cent.Output of the manufacturing sector rose by just 4 per cent in February, compared to 7.5 per cent in February 2011.Consumer goods output has also shown a slowdown as the production declined by 0.2 per cent per cent in February, as compared to 13.4 per cent in the same month last year.Besides, the consumer durables segment output contracted 6.7 per cent in February, as against robust 18.2 per cent growth in the same month last year.However, the capital goods sector witnessed a growth of 10.6 per cent, as against a contraction of 5.7 per cent in the same month last year.Mining output too has shown some improvement at 2.1 per cent in February, as against 1.2 per cent growth in the year-ago month. Power generation witnessed a growth of 8 per cent in February, compared to 6.8 per cent in the year-ago period. During the month, 18 out of 22 industry groups witnessed positive growth in February. Output of basic goods went up by 7.5 per cent, as against 5.5 per cent. However, intermediate goods witnessed a contraction of 0.6 per cent, as against 6.3 per cent growth in February last year. During the April-February period of 2011-12, the IIP growth is 3.5 per cent, as against 8.1 per cent in same period in 2010-11.

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