Index of Core Industries January 2020

 New data for Index of Core Industries:

2020 January: 137.5
2019 January: 134.5
 YoY growth: 2.2%

 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 Jan   137.5
2019 Dec   134.3 (133.2)
2019 Nov   127.5 (126.3)
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 November 2019, December 2019 and January 2020 are provisional.
2. Release of the index for February 2020 will be on Tuesday, March 31, 2020.

Data source: Ministry of Commerce and Industry January 2020.