{"id":68147,"date":"2019-02-11T04:14:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T04:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=68147"},"modified":"2019-02-11T04:14:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T04:14:58","slug":"index-of-eight-core-industries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/index-of-eight-core-industries\/","title":{"rendered":"Index of Eight Core Industries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Consider the following statements regarding Index of Eight Core Industries, November 2018:<br> 1) The Eight Core Industries comprise 40.27 percent of the weight of items included in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP).<br> 2) The Natural Gas production increased by 0.5 % in November 2018.<br> 3) Petroleum Refinery production increased by 2.3% in November 2018.<br> 4) Coal production increased by 6% in November 2018.<br> Correct option:<br> (a) 1, 2 and 4<br> (b) 2, 3 and 4<br> (c) 1, 2 and 3<br> (d) All of the above.<br> Answer: (c)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The Eight Core Industries shares 40.27% of the total weight of items included in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP). The summary of Index of Eight Core Industries (base 2011-12) is given:<\/li><li>Coal: Coal production has increased by 3.7% in November, 2018. The cumulative index also increased by 9% during April-November 2018-19 over corresponding period of the previous year.<\/li><li>Crude Oil: Its production decreased by 3.5% in November, 2018 over November 2017 and the cumulative Index saw a decline by 3.6% during April-November 2018-19 over corresponding period of the previous year.<\/li><li>Natural Gas: Its production increased by 0.5% in November 2018 over the same in 2017 and its cumulative index decreased by 0.7% during April-November 2018-19 over corresponding period of the previous year.<\/li>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7086827700842303\" data-ad-slot=\"2662621974\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<li>Petroleum Refinery: Its production increased by 2.3% in November 2018 over November 2017 and the cumulative index increase by 5.3% during April-November 2018-19 over corresponding period of the previous year.<\/li><li>Fertilizers Production: Its production decreased by 8.1% in November 2018 over November 2017 and its cumulative index declined by 1.3% during April-November 2018-19 over corresponding period of the previous year.<\/li><li>Steel: Its production increased by 6% in November 2018 over November 2017 and cumulative index increased by 3.7% during April-November 2018-19 over corresponding period of the previous year.<\/li><li>Cement: Its production increased by 8.8% in November 2018 over November 2017 while its cumulative index increased by 14.2% during April-November 2018-19 over corresponding period of the previous year.<\/li><li>Electricity Generation: Its production increased by 5.4% in November 2018 over November 2017 while its cumulative index increased by 6.7% during April-November 2018-19 over corresponding period of the previous year.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/164.100.158.168\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1557958\">http:\/\/164.100.158.168\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1557958<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Consider the following statements regarding Index of Eight Core Industries, November 2018: 1) The Eight Core Industries comprise 40.27 percent of the weight of items included in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP). 2) The Natural Gas production increased by 0.5 % in November 2018. 3) Petroleum Refinery production increased by 2.3% in November [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":68149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[2338],"class_list":["post-68147","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\/68147","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68147\/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\/68149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68147"}],"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=68147"},{"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=68147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}