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Index of Eight Core Industries in December

The summarized Index of Eight Core Industries with 2004-05 bases is given below.

The Eight core industries have a combined weight of 37.90% in the Index of Industrial Production. The combined Index was 147.30 in December 2011 with a growth rate of 3.1% compared to their 6.3% Growth in December 2010. During April to December 2011-12, the cumulative growth rate of the Core industries was 4.4% as against their growth at 5.7% during the corresponding period in 2010-11.

Coal
Coal production (weight: 4.38%) registered a growth of 5.6% in December 2011 compared to its growth at 3.8% in December 2010. However, in cumulative terms Coal production had a negative growth of (-) 2.7% during April to December 2011-12 compared to its growth at 0.8% during the same period of 2010-11.

Crude Oil
Crude Oil production (weight: 5.22%) registered a growth of (-) 5.6% in December 2011 compared to its growth at 15.8% in December 2010. Cumulatively Crude Oil production registered a growth of 1.9% during April to December 2011-12 compared to its growth at 12.0% during the same period of 2010-11.

Natural Gas
Natural Gas production (weight: 1.71%) registered a growth of (-) 10.8% in December 2011 compared to its growth at (-) 0.2% in December 2010. Natural Gas production registered a growth of (-) 8.8% during April to December 2011-12 compared to its growth at 17.3% during the same period of 2010-11.

Petroleum Refinery Products (0.93% of Crude Throughput)
Petroleum refinery production (weight: 5.94%) had a growth of 0.8% in December 2011 compared to its growth at 8.3% in December 2010. In cumulative terms Petroleum refinery production registered a growth of 4.1% during April to December 2011-12 compared to its 1.7% growth during the same period of 2010-11.

Fertilizers
Fertilizer production (weight: 1.25%) registered a growth of 0.8% in December 2011 against its growth at 0.3% in December 2010. Cumulatively Fertilizer production had a negative growth of (-) 0.5% during April to December 2011-12 corresponding to (-) 1.5% growth during the same period of 2010-11.

Steel (Alloy + Non-Alloy)
Steel production (weight: 6.68%) had a growth rate of 2.2% in December 2011 against its 9.4% growth in December 2010. Cumulatively Steel production had a 7.5% growth during April to December 2011-12 compared to its 8.3% growth during the same period of 2010-11.

Cement
Cement production (weight: 2.41%) registered a growth of 13.3% in December 2011 against its (-) 2.2% growth in December 2010. The cumulative growth of Cement Production was 5.3% during April to December 2011-12 compared to its 4.4% growth during the same period of 2010-11.

Electricity
Electricity generation (weight: 10.32%) had a 8.0% growth in December 2011 compared to its 5.0% growth in December 2010. Electricity generation on the other hand had a cumulative growth of 9.2% during April to December 2011-12 as against its 4.7% growth during the same period of 2010-11.