Eight core industries grow 1.8% in November; cement, steel lead gains
Among individual sectors, coal production increased by 2.1% in November 2025 on a year-on-year basis. However, its cumulative index declined by 1.4% during April–November 2025-26.
Among individual sectors, coal production increased by 2.1% in November 2025 on a year-on-year basis. However, its cumulative index declined by 1.4% during April–November 2025-26.
Coal production registered strong growth of 11.4% in August 2025 compared to August 2024. However, its cumulative index for April–August 2025-26 showed a marginal decline of 0.7% over the same period last year.
The coal sector has demonstrated the highest growth of 14.8% (provisional) among the eight core industries for the month of June 2024, as per the Index of Eight Core Industries, the Ministry of Coal highlighted on Friday.
The production of Electricity, Coal, Steel, Natural Gas and Refinery Products recorded positive growth in May 2024.
he production of Electricity, Natural Gas, Coal, Steel, Refinery Products, Crude Oil and Cement recorded positive growth in April 2024.
The Coal Ministry said the index of the coal industry reached 212.1 points during February 2024 as compared to 190.1 points during the same period of last year.
Cement production, which has a weightage of 5.37, rose by 548.8 per cent in the month under review.
Electricity generation, which has the second highest weightage of 19.85, however, rose by 21.6 per cent, whereas the steel production was down 23 per cent over last month.
During April-May 2020-21, the sector's output dipped by 30 per cent as compared to 4.5 per cent in the same period previous year.
The output of India's eight major industries during last month grew by 3.6 per cent from a rise of 2.8…
