{"id":439599,"date":"2021-10-01T11:07:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T05:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=439599"},"modified":"2021-10-01T12:40:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T07:10:04","slug":"core-sector-expands-11-6-in-august-on-low-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/core-sector-expands-11-6-in-august-on-low-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Core sector expands 11.6% in August on low base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight core infrastructure industries recorded an 11.6% increase in output in August, benefiting from a low base of the year-earlier period and continuing the sustained growth that began in March. <\/p>\n<p>Output of coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, fertilizers, steel, cement and electricity industries comprise two-fifths of the weight of items included in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP).<\/p>\n<p>Data released by the ministry of commerce and industry showed that barring crude oil and fertilizers, all other sectors reported growth in output. In the April-August period of FY22, the core sector witnessed a 19.3% expansion from the year-ago period. A lull in monsoon rains in August boosted coal, cement, and electricity, and lifted mobility that propped up growth in petroleum refinery products, experts said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight core infrastructure industries recorded an 11.6% increase in output in August, benefiting from a low base of the year-earlier period and continuing the sustained growth that began in March. Output of coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, fertilizers, steel, cement and electricity industries comprise two-fifths of the weight of items included in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP). Data released by the ministry of commerce and industry showed that barring crude oil and fertilizers, all other sectors reported growth in output. In the April-August period of FY22, the core sector witnessed a 19.3% expansion from the year-ago period. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}