Sources have stated that the core sector output was increased by 8.5% during the month of April versus 6.4% on March which is on back of strong growth from steel, electricity and petroleum refinery output and the eight core industries are coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, fertilizers, steel, cement and electricity.
Meanwhile the steel output was up by 6.1% and for cement it was up by 4.4 % for the month of April and the electricity output too has grown at 14.7% versus and 11.3% increase during the month of March. The petroleum refinery products output was up by 17.9% as compared to month on month increase of 10.8%. The Mom fertilizer output was up by 7.8%.
It is stated that the coal output was gone down by 0.9% versus a 1.7% increase in the month of March and the crude oil output has also gone down by 2.3% versus a month on month (MoM) decline of 5.1% respectively.
