Tag: Factory production

New Delhi : As manufacturing picked up pace, India's factory production growth in January at 7.5 per cent doubled over the 3.5 recorded in the same month last year, even as retail inflation eased in February, official data showed on Monday. Industry welcomed the "pick-up in growth trajectory" witnessed in the beginning of the calendar year. The Index of Industrial Production (IIP), however, rose marginally over the 7.1 per cent registered in December 2017, a Central Statistics Office (CSO) release said here. The cumulative IIP growth for the April-January period of the...