NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's industrial production fell an unexpected 0.6 percent in December from a year earlier weighed down by manufacturing, government data showed on Tuesday, extending a period of gloom in Asia's-third largest economy.
Analysts polled by Reuters had expected output to grow 1.1 percent annually.
Manufacturing, which constitutes about 76 percent of industrial production, fell 0.7 percent from a year earlier, the federal statistics office said.
In the April-December period, industrial production expanded an annual 0.7 percent.
(Reporting by Arup Roychoudhury; Editing by Frank Jack Daniel)
