Industrial output up 7.1% in June

India's industrial output in June rose at a slower-than-expected 7.1 per cent from a year earlier, its slowest pace in 13 months, government data showed today.

India's industrial output in June rose at a slower-than-expected 7.1 per cent from a year earlier, its slowest pace in 13 months, government data showed on Thursday.

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The median forecast in a Reuters poll was for an annual rise of 8.4 per cent.

Manufacturing output rose an annual 7.3 per cent in June, the federal statistics office said in a statement.

Industrial output rose 10.4 per cent in the 2009/10 financial year (April-March), faster than the 2.8 per cent clocked in the previous fiscal year.