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Six core industriesachieve 8.4 pcgrowth in June
Ravi Kapoor
New Delhi, July 20: Six infrastructure industries, which have a weightage of 26.68 per cent in the index of industrial production (IIP), registered a growth rate of 8.4 per cent in June. Growth in the April-June period was 8 per cent, as against 7.1 per cent in the corresponding period of the last year.According to an official release issued here on Thursday, in June electricity registered grew by 4.7 per cent (against 4.1 per cent in June 1999), steel by 10.6 per cent (14.5 per cent), petroleum refinery products by 38.3 per cent (11.7 per cent), coal by 7.2 per cent (0.5 per cent), cement by 7.2 per cent (21.6 per cent) and crude petroleum by 0.5 per cent (-4 per cent). Copyright © 2000 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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