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February infrastructure output down 2.5%

April 01, 2013 14:14 IST
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InfrastructureIndia's infrastructure sector output slumped 2.5 per cent in February from a year earlier, government data showed on Monday, in a sign Asia's third largest economy has yet to escape from the worst slowdown in a decade.

Infrastructure output for eight sectors -- coal, crude oil, oil refinery, natural gas, steel, cement, electricity and fertilisers -- grew at an annual 2.6 per cent in the April-February period compared with 5.2

per cent a year earlier.

The infrastructure sector accounts for 37.9 per cent of India's industrial output.

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