New Delhi: Industrial production grew at a nearly three-year high of 6.4% in August on account of improvement in manufacturing as well as mining activity and better offtake of capital goods.
The index grew at 8.4% in October, 2012. After that, it has touched the highest level of 6.4% in August.
The IIP growth for July has been revised slightly downwards to 4.1% from provisional estimate of 4.2% last month.
The manufacturing sector, which constitutes over 75% of the index, grew by 6.9% in August, 2015 against a contraction of 1.1% in the same month last year.
During April-August period, manufacturing sector grew at 4.6% as compared to 2% growth in same period a year ago.
The mining sector growth was at 3.8% in August against 1.2% in the same month last fiscal. During April-August period, the sector grew at 1.2%.
The output of capital goods, a barometer of investment, grew at an impressive rate of 21.8% as against a contraction of 10% in the same month last year.
During April-August, the capital goods output grew by 7.4% as compared to 4.8% in the year-ago period.
However, power generation growth slowed to 5.6% in August as compared to 12.9% in the same month a year ago.
During April-August period, it grew by by 3.2% as compared to 11.7% in same period a year ago.
In terms of industries, 15 out of 22 groups in the manufacturing sector showed positive growth in August.