Industrial production up 10.9% in Jan

 The growth of mining sector in the review period went up to 4.5% as against 0.6%, while the same for power sector advanced to 7.6% from 5%.

In terms of industries, as many as 16 out of 17 industry group have shown positive growth in January 2007 as compared to the corresponding month of the previous year.

Wood and wood products; Furniture and fixtures have shown the highest growth of 81.5%, followed by 28.7% in Basic metal and alloy industries and 22.4% in Cotton textiles.

However, the industry group Jute and other vegetable fibre textiles (except cotton) has shown a negative growth of 89.2%.