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Updated: May 22, 2020, 04:00 PM IST

Industrial production shrank by close to 17 in March RBI

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das on May 22, said that the industrial production shrank by close to 17% in March with manufacturing activity down by 21% in view of deadly COVID-19 pandemic. “Output of core industries contracted by 6.5%,” he added. “Amidst this encircling gloom agriculture and allied activities have, however, provided a beacon of hope on the back of an increase of 3.7% in food grain production to a new record,” Das further said.

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Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das on May 22, said that the industrial production shrank by close to 17% in March with manufacturing activity down by 21% in view of deadly COVID-19 pandemic. “Output of core industries contracted by 6.5%,” he added. “Amidst this encircling gloom agriculture and allied activities have, however, provided a beacon of hope on the back of an increase of 3.7% in food grain production to a new record,” Das further said.

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