"The YoY growth in the IIP is likely to improve in the ongoing quarter partly boosted by the typical year-end push in volumes to achieve targets," said Aditi Nayar, an economist at ICRA. India's fiscal year starts April 1 and runs through March. Nayar added that a fall in exports due to global weakness will be a key risk to India's manufacturing sector. (Reporting by Aftab Ahmed; editing by Jason Neely)
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NEW DELHI, Feb 10 (Reuters) - India's industrial output in December rose 4.3% year on year, data from the
Ministry of Statistics showed on Friday.
That was lower than the 4.5% expected by analysts polled by
Reuters. In November output topped 7% while in December 2022 it
rose 1%.
Industrial output for April-December rose 5.4% versus 15.3%
in the same period last year when the data reflected a low base
effect due to the pandemic.
In December, manufacturing rose 2.6% year on year compared
with a 0.6% expansion last year.
Mining output rose 9.8% versus 2.6% a year earlier.
Electricity consumption rose 10.4% against 2.8% last year,
the data showed.
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