Industrial output grows by 5% in January

India's industrial production rose by 5% in January 2025 mainly due to good performance of the manufacturing sector, according to official data released on Wednesday, March 12.

The government also revised upward industrial growth figure to 3.5% for December 2024 from the provisional estimate of 3.2% released in the previous month.

The factory output, measured in terms of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), rose by 4.2% in January 2024.

The data released by the National Statistics Office (NSO) showed that the manufacturing sector's output grew by 5.5% in January 2025, up from 3.6% in the year-ago month.

Mining production growth dipped to 4.4% from 6% year-on-year. Power output growth slowed to 2.4% in January 2025 from 5.6% a year ago.

In the April-January period, the IIP grew 4.2%, down from 6% recorded in the year-ago period.