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Core Sector Update - High Growth Numbers Must Be Read With Caution: CARE Ratings

Core Sector Update - High Growth Numbers Must Be Read With Caution: CARE Ratings

Cooling water pours onto a red hot steel slab in the slab casting shop at a factory in Haryana, India. (Photographer: Udit Kulshrestha/Bloomberg)
Cooling water pours onto a red hot steel slab in the slab casting shop at a factory in Haryana, India. (Photographer: Udit Kulshrestha/Bloomberg)

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CARE Ratings Research Report

The Eight core sector output rose to 32-months high of 6.8% in March 2021 chiefly on account of a negative base of 8.5% in the corresponding month of the previous year.

Therefore, one needs to read the core sector growth number with caution.

The pick-up observed in March 2021 has been on account of significant double-digit growths witnessed in steel, cement, electricity and natural gas, where the production activity had seen a sharp decline in March 2020 on the back of the imposition of the nation-wide lockdown.

The contraction witnessed in the month of February 2021 has been revised upwards to down 3.8% as against the previous estimate of 4.6%.

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CARE Ratings Core Sector March 2021.pdf

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