Index of Core Industries August 2020

New data for Index of Core Industries:

2020 August: 117.6
2019 August: 128.5
YoY growth: -8.5%

 Details: The Ministry of Commerce and Industry Office of Economic Adviser (OEA), Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP), reports a monthly index, ICI, "Index of Eight Core Industries (Base: 2011-12=100)".

 "The Eight Core Industries comprise 40.27 per cent of the weight of items included in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP)." These are Coal, Crude Oil, Natural Gas, Refinery Products, Fertilizers, Steel, Cement, Electricity.  

Also see: https://currentaffairs.gktoday.in/tags/index-of-eight-core-industries

The index: (note: reverse-chronological order)

Month      Index Revisions (second) (first)
2020 Aug   117.6
2020 Jul   122.0 (119.9)
2020 Jun   115.6 (112.9)
2020 May   107.7 (106.9) (105.0)
2020 Apr    81.2 ( 82.3) ( 80.9)
2020 Mar   134.0 (133.3) (137.0)
2020 Feb   134.0 (134.9) (132.9)
2020 Jan   137.4 (136.4) (137.5)
2019 Dec   135.5 (134.3) (133.2)
2019 Nov   129.2 (128.8) (127.5)
2019 Oct   127.4 (127.0) (127.0)
2019 Sep   120.7 (120.7) (120.6)
2019 Aug   128.5 (128.9) (128.2)
2019 Jul   132.6 (132.7) (131.9)
2019 Jun   132.8 (132.1) (131.4)
2019 May   137.0 (137.6) (138.7)
2019 Apr   130.7 (132.1)
2019 Mar   146.5 (145.2)
2019 Feb   125.9
2019 Jan   134.5
2018 Dec   131.5
2018 Nov   128.3
2018 Oct   134.8
2018 Sep   127.2
2018 Aug   128.8
2018 Jul   129.2
2018 Jun   131.2
2018 May   131.9
2018 Apr   124.3
2018 Mar   138.5
2018 Feb   123.2

Notes
0. Revisions of provisional data from the previous reports are shown above.

1. Data for June 2020, July 2020, August 2020 are provisional.

2. Release of the index for September 2020 will be on Thursday, October 29,2020.

Data source: Ministry of Commerce and Industry August 2020.