{"id":27864,"date":"2017-07-03T12:08:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T12:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=27864"},"modified":"2017-07-03T12:08:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T12:08:06","slug":"index-eight-core-industries-may-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/index-eight-core-industries-may-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Index of Eight Core Industries May, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: According to the Index of Eight Core Industries May, 2017, the production of coal has\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Increased<br \/>\n(b) Declined<br \/>\n(c) Stable<br \/>\n(d) None of the above.<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (b)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>The summary of the Index of Eight Core Industries (base: 2011-12) as of May , 2017, is as follows:<br \/>\nCoal production (weight: 10.33%) declined by 3.3% in May, 2017 over May, 2016. Its cumulative index declined by 3.3% during April to May, 2017-18 over corresponding period of the previous year.<\/li>\n<li>Crude Oil production (weight: 8.98 %) increased by 0.7% in May, 2017 over May, 2016. Its cumulative index increased by 0.1 % during April to May, 2017-18 over the corresponding period of previous year.<\/li>\n<li>The Natural Gas production (weight: 6.88 %) increased by 4.5 % in May, 2017 over May, 2016. Its cumulative index increased by 3.3 % during April to May, 2017-18 over the corresponding period of previous year.<\/li>\n<li>Petroleum Refinery production (weight: 28.04%) increased by 5.4% in May, 2017 over May, 2016. Its cumulative index increased by 2.8 % during April to May, 2017-18 over the corresponding period of previous year.<\/li>\n<li>Fertilizer production (weight: 2.63 %) declined by 6.5% in May, 2017 over May, 2016. Its cumulative index declined by 0.8 % during April to May, 2017-18 over the corresponding period of previous year.<\/li>\n<li>Steel production (weight: 17.92%) increased by 3.7% in May, 2017 over May, 2016. Its cumulative index increased by 6.3% during April to May, 2017-18 over the corresponding period of previous year.<\/li>\n<li>Cement production (weight: 5.37%) increased by 1.8% in May, 2017 over May, 2016. Its cumulative index declined by 0.3 % during April to May, 2017-18 over the corresponding period of previous year.<\/li>\n<li>Electricity generation (weight: 19.85%) increased by 6.4 % in May, 2017over May, 2016. Its cumulative index increased by5.9% during April to May, 2017-18 over the corresponding period of previous year. Electricity generation data from renewable sources are also included.<\/li>\n<li>The Eight Core Industries comprise 40.27 % of the weight of items included in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP). The combined Index of Eight Core Industries stands at 126.4 in May, 2017, which was 3.6 % higher compared to the index of May, 2016. Its cumulative growth during April to May, 2017-18 was 3.2 %.<\/li>\n<li>Note 1: Data for March, 2017, April, 2017 and May, 2017 are provisional.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=167031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=167031<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: According to the Index of Eight Core Industries May, 2017, the production of coal has\u2026 (a) Increased (b) Declined (c) Stable (d) None of the above. Ans: (b) The summary of the Index of Eight Core Industries (base: 2011-12) as of May , 2017, is as follows: Coal production (weight: 10.33%) declined by 3.3% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[2338],"class_list":["post-27864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enew","tag-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}