India's industrial output declined by 1.8 percent during October, due to poor performance of the mining and manufacturing sector, government data showed Thursday.
Factory output measured in terms of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) had grown by two percent in September.
The cumulative growth of the industrial production for the April-October period year-on-year was at a standstill from a growth of about 1.2 percent in the corresponding period of last fiscal, according to data released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) here.