India sees 7.8% jump in factory output in December, fastest in 2 years
India Today
The top three positive contributors to December 2025 IIP numbers include the manufacturing of basic metals (12.7 per cent), motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers (33.5 per cent) and pharmaceuticals, medicinal chemical and botanical products (10.2 per cent).
India's industrial production grew at an over two-year high pace of 7.8 per cent in December 2025 on the back of robust output in manufacturing, mining and power sectors, according to government data released on Wednesday.
The factory output, measured in terms of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), expanded by 3.7 per cent in December 2024.
"Industry momentum further strengthened in December 2025 as the IIP rose by 7.8 per cent, reaching its highest level in over 2 years, after registering a high growth of 7.2 per cent in November 2025," the National Statistics Office (NSO) said in a statement.
The NSO also revised the industrial production growth for November 2025 to 7.2 per cent from the provisional estimate of 6.7 per cent released last month.
During the April-December period of FY26, the country's industrial production growth slowed to 3.9 per cent compared to 4.1 per cent in the same period a year ago.
According to the NSO data, the manufacturing sector's output grew by 8.1 per cent in December 2025 compared to 3.7 per cent in the year-ago month.
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