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Finance Minister asks for Treating News of Moderating Inflation for The Week Ending on April 30,2011 and Turn Around in IIP Ffor March, 2011 without over Reaction |
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Press Information Bureau Government of India Ministry of Finance 12-May-2011 Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee said that the comforting news on the inflation front with food inflation moderating from 8.53 per cent to 7.70 per cent in the week ending April 30th, 2011 is matched by a turn-around in Index of Industrial Production (IIP) for March 2011. Shri Mukherjee said that after 4 months of slow growth, the industrial sector in March grew by 7.3 per cent and, within the industrial sector, the manufacturing sector with a weight of almost 80 per cent grew by 7.9 per cent. Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee said that there is also a revival in the growth of capital goods with the Index recording a growth of 12.9 per cent after 3 months of negative growth.
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