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NEW DELHI: Driven by an expansion in cement, refinery and coal production, the infrastructure sector reached its highest level in seven months, at 6.7% in June, official data revealed on Tuesday. .
The core sector grew by 4.3% in May 2018 and 1% in June of last year. The eight infrastructure sectors that are coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, fertilizers, steel, cement and electricity account for 40.27% of the total. total industrial production.
Higher growth could provide an elevator to industrial production that slowed to a seven-month low of 3.2% in May.
"The recovery in the growth of basic industries, auto production and exports of non-oil products is expected to accelerate the pace of industrial expansion to about 6% in June, driven by manufacturing and manufacturing. 39, electricity, "said Aditi Nayar, senior economist at ICRA.