New Delhi: Laggard state of Bihar seems to
have caught up with the rest of India as it clocked 14.80 per
cent growth in factory output in 2007-08, marginally less than
the country's rate of 15.24 per cent.
"Bihar is doing well," Ashish Kumar, Additional Director
General, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
(MOSPI) said releasing summary of Annual Survey of Industries
2007-08, the volume of which would be out within a month.
The survey conducted by Central Statistical Organisation
(CSO) and National Sample Survey Organisation under MOSPI
provides information on factories, and bidi and cigar units
across India. State-wise details are expected in the volume.
"Bihar's total factory output was 14.80 per cent and
total employees grew by 10.02 per cent in 2007-08 over
2006-07," Kumar said, adding that India's factory output
during the year grew by 15.24 per cent.
Recently, Bihar had hit the headlines as a CSO data
showed the state clocking an astonishing 11.03 per cent growth
per year during 2004-05 and 2008-09 second only to Gujarat at
11.05 per cent, when the country grew at 8.49 per cent.
According to the ASI 2007-08, the highest number of
working factories was in Tamil Nadu (14.37 per cent) followed
by Maharashtra (12.50 per cent).
Maharashtra had the highest invested capital at 16.78 per
cent followed by Gujarat at 16.37 per cent and Tamil Nadu at
10.12 per cent, it said.
-PTI
First Published: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 21:59