Industrial output growth at 13-month low of 0.4% in Oct

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

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The factory output, measured in terms of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), had expanded by 3.7 percent 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 percent 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 percent in October 2025 from 4.4 percent in the year-ago month.

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

Power production contracted by 6.9 percent 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 percent compared to 4 percent in the same period a year ago.

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