Slowdown impact: UP July industrial output falls 3.6% as mining, mfg drag

State's industrial output had grown 3.2 per cent YoY in June, exceeding the all-India figure of 2% that month

The economic slowdown has decelerated industrial output in Uttar Pradesh by 3.6 per cent year-on-year in July 2019, even as India’s industrial production logged 4.3 per cent growth in the same period.

Interestingly, UP's industrial output grew 3.2 per cent YoY in June 2019, exceeding the all-India figure of 2% that month.

But in July, UP’s industrial index dipped largely due to sudden slowdown in the mining and manufacturing sectors, although mining had been driving its industrial growth over the past several months.

As per the Quick Estimates of Index of Industrial Production on base year 2011-12 released by the