New Delhi, March 2 India's industrial production growth slowed to a three-month low of 4.8 per cent in January, driven by weak performance in the mining and manufacturing sectors, according to official data released on Monday.
Factory output, measured by the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), grew by 5.2 per cent in January 2025.
The previous low was recorded in October 2025 at 0.5 per cent growth. The IIP growth was 7.2 per cent in November 2025, according to an official statement.
The National Statistics Office (NSO) revised the industrial production growth for December 2025 to 8 per cent from the provisional estimate of 7.8 per cent released in January 2026.
The NSO data further showed that the manufacturing sector's output growth slowed to 4.8 per cent in January 2025, compared to 5.8 per cent in the previous year.
Mining production growth also slowed marginally to 4.3 per cent compared to a growth of 4.4 per cent recorded a year ago.
Power generation grew by 5.1 per cent in January 2025, compared to 2.4 per cent expansion in the previous year.
During the April-January period of FY26, India's industrial production growth also slowed slightly to 4 per cent compared to 4.2 per cent in the same period a year ago.