India’s Industrial Production: Maintaining GDP growth and creating new employment opportunities has become a big challenge for the countries facing America’s high tariffs. At a time when the Indian Rupee is continuously weakening against the Dollar and fluctuations are being seen in the stock market, a positive news has emerged from the economic front.

The country’s industrial production increased by 4 percent in September. This growth has been recorded mainly due to the better performance of the manufacturing sector. According to official data from the National Statistical Office (NSO) released on Tuesday, industrial production, measured in terms of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), grew by 3.2 percent in September 2024.

Performance of manufacturing and other sectors

NSO has revised the provisional estimate of industrial production growth for August 2025 from 4 percent to 4.1 percent. According to the new data, the production of the manufacturing sector increased by 4.8 percent in September, whereas it increased by 4 percent a year ago i.e. in September 2024. However, there was a decline of 0.4 percent in the mining sector, whereas there was a marginal growth of 0.2 percent a year ago.

increase in power generation

Electricity generation recorded an increase of 3.1 percent in September 2025, whereas in the same period last year this increase was only 0.5 percent. The country’s industrial production has increased by 3 percent during the first half (April-September) of the financial year 2025-26, while in the first half of 2024-25 the growth was 4.1 percent.

On the other hand, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal will hold an important meeting with the exporters’ community here on Wednesday. In this meeting, measures to further increase the country’s exports will be discussed. The country’s exports have increased by 6.74 percent to reach 36.38 billion dollars in September. This meeting is taking place at a time when India’s exports to its largest trading partner America declined by about 12 percent to $5.46 billion last month.

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India’s Industrial Production Growth: Due to weak performance of manufacturing, mining and power sectors, India’s industrial production growth rate was sluggish in the month of April to 2.7 percent. According to the official data released on Wednesday, the industrial production measured in terms of the Industrial Production Index (IIP) increased by 5.2 percent in April last year i.e. 2024. The National Statistics Office (NSO) has revised the estimate of industrial production growth for March to 3.9 percent, while the estimate was stated to be 3 percent last month.

Speed ​​of sluggish industrial production

India’s industrial production growth rate was 2.7 percent in February. According to NSO data, the production growth of manufacturing sector decreased slightly to 3.4 percent in April, which was 4.2 percent in this month a year ago. Mining production declined by 0.2 percent, while there was an increase of 6.8 percent a year ago.

According to the news agency PTI, the increase in power generation also slowed down to one percent in April, 2025, compared to 10.2 percent in the same period a year ago. According to the use-based classification, the growth of the capital commodity section increased to 20.3 percent in April 2025, which was 2.8 percent in the same period a year ago.

Mining-electricity also gave a shock

Consumer durable items (production of fridge, AC etc.) increased by 6.4 percent in the month under review as compared to an increase of 10.5 percent in April 2024. Production of non-tricky items declined by 1.7 percent in April, while it declined by 2.5 percent in April 2024.

The infrastructure/construction items recorded an increase of 4 percent in April, which is less than an increase of 8.5 percent in the same period of a year ago. According to the data, the production of primary items declined by 0.4 percent in April 2025, compared to seven percent a year ago. Production in the intermediate commodity section was 4.1 percent in the month, which was 3.8 percent in this month a year ago.

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