CORE SECTOR GROWTH SLOWS (due to a fall in the output of crude petroleum and steel).

(From India Business Insight)

The growth in the six infrastructure sectors declined to 3.3 percent during Jan 2006 (4.2 percent in Jan 2005) due to a fall in the output of crude petroleum and steel and a drop in the production rate of the five sectors, except cement.

The growth in the six core infrastructure industries, which have a combined weightage of 26.7 percent in the Index of Industrial Production, fell to 4.3 percent between Apr 2005 and Jan 2006 (6.2 percent between Apr 2004 …