Industrial Output Slows To 2.7% In April On Weak Mining, Power Sectors
Among all the sectors, manufacturing, which carries the largest weight in the index - National Statistics Office;
New Delhi: With the muted growth in mining and power sectors, India’s industrial output growth slowed to 2.7 per cent in April, down from 5.2 per cent a year ago, as against the revised growth of 3 per cent in the preceding month of March. The slowdown comes amid the reciprocal tariffs announced by the United States last month, which raised a cloud over global exports, according to the government data released on Wednesday.
As per the data released by National Statistics Office (NSO), among all the sectors, manufacturing, which carries the largest weight in the index, grew only 3.4 per cent in April from 4.2 per cent in the same period last year. However, the factory output, measured in terms of the index of industrial production or IIP rose by 5.2 per cent in April last year.
Meanwhile, the NSO also revised upwards industrial production growth for March to 3.9 per cent from the earlier estimate of 3 per cent released last month. The IIP growth was 2.7 in February also. “The manufacturing sector’s output growth slightly decelerated to 3.4 per cent in April 2025 from 4.2 per cent in the year-ago month,” the data showed.
The data further showed that the most affected sectors were mining and power. “Mining production contracted by 0.2 per cent as against a growth of 6.8 per cent a year ago, while power output growth also slowed to 1 per cent in April 2025 against 10.2 per cent in the year-ago period,” the data showed.
As per use-based classification, the data showed that the capital goods segment growth accelerated to 20.3 per cent in April 2025 from 2.8 per cent in the year-ago period. “Consumer durables or white goods production grew only 6.4 per cent during the reporting month against a growth of 10.5 per cent in April 2024,” it showed.
In April 2025, the data said, consumer non-durables output contracted 1.7 per cent compared to a decline of 2.5 per cent a year ago. “Infrastructure and construction goods reported a growth of 4 per cent in April 2025, down from an 8.5 per cent expansion in the year-ago period,” it said.