“The sequential slowdown was led by the manufacturing sector, while the mining and electricity sectors witnessed an improvement in their growth performance amid deficient rainfall in the month,” said Aditi Nayar, chief economist, Icra. Manufacturing, which has a weight of 77.6% in the Index of Industrial Production, grew at its slowest pace of 3.1% in three months, even as electricity and mining outperformed, showed a government data release on Friday.
