Industrial Output Slows to 0.4% in October

New Delhi, Dec 1 (PTI) India's industrial production growth slowed to a 13-month low of 0.4 per cent in October this year due to the poor showing by power, mining and manufacturing sectors, according to official data released on Monday.

The factory output, measured in terms of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), had expanded by 3.7 per cent in October 2024.

The previous low was recorded as flat growth in September 2024.

The National Statistics Office (NSO) revised the industrial production growth to 4.6 per cent for September 2025 from the provisional estimate of 4 per cent released last month.

The latest NSO data showed that the manufacturing sector's output growth decelerated to 1.8 per cent in October 2025 from 4.4 per cent in the year-ago month.

Mining production contracted by 1.8 per cent against a growth of 0.9 per cent recorded a year ago.

Power production contracted by 6.9 per cent in October 2025, compared to a 2 per cent expansion in the year-ago period.

During the April-October period of FY26, the country's industrial production growth decelerated by 2.7 per cent compared to 4 per cent in the same period a year ago.