(Reporting by Aftab Ahmed; editing by John Stonestreet and Mark Heinrich)
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NEW DELHI, May 12 (Reuters) - India's industrial output rose 1.1% year on year in March, data from the
Ministry of Statistics showed on Friday.
Analysts in a Reuters poll had forecast an expansion of
3.1%. In February, output rose 5.6%.
In the 2022/23 financial year that ended on March 31,
industrial output grew 5.1% from the same period a year earlier.
Manufacturing, which accounts for about 15% of the
Indian economy, rose 0.5% year-on-year in March. Electricity
generation during March fell 1.6% over the same period a year
earlier, while mining activities increased 6.8%, the data
showed.
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