March industrial output up 2.7 percent

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's industrial output rose 2.7 percent in March from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday.

Economists surveyed by Reuters had forecast a 1.5 percent growth in output.

India released on Friday a new series of industrial output and wholesale inflation data, revising the base year to 2011/12 from 2004/05.

(Reporting by Manoj Kumar; Editing by Malini Menon)