Led by a strong performance by the manufacturing sector, industrial growth was up 8% in January 2005, and the index of industrial production (IIP) moved up 8.4% between April-January 2004-05 as against 6.7% in April-January 2003-04.According to quick estimates of IIP, the manufacturing sector during the first 10 months of the current fiscal grew by 9.2% as against 7.3% during the same period of the previous fiscal.Growth of the electricity sector declined to 2.3% when compared to 6.1% in January 2004 even though cumulative growth between April-January 2004-05 shot up to 6% as against 3.7% in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal.The mining sector grew by 4.6% during the first 10 months of the current fiscal as against 4.7% between April-December 2003-04.
