India's infrastructure sector is moving fast. In june 2025, the growth rate of the country's eight core infrastructure sectors reached a three-month high of 1.7 percent. According to government data released on Monday, this is higher than the growth rate of 1.2 percent recorded in May 2025, but less than the growth of 5 percent recorded in june 2024.
These are the five sectors - coal, crude oil, natural gas, fertilizer and electricity, whose output was recorded negative in June. However, positive growth was recorded in the production of refinery products (3.4 percent), steel (9.3 percent) and cement (9.2 percent).
There was such a decrease in production
In the first (April-June) quarter of the financial year 2026, the eight core sectors have achieved a growth of 1.3 percent. Whereas in the same period last year it was 6.2 percent. That is, growth has decreased compared to the last one year. Coal production has declined by 6.8 percent in june, while crude oil production has declined by 1.2 percent. Natural gas and fertilizer production have declined by 2.8 percent and 1.2 percent respectively.
Production of five out of eight sectors decreased
According to the report of news 18, Aditi Nair, Chief Economist of ICRA Limited, said, even though core production increased from 1.2 percent in May 2025 to 1.7 percent, it was definitely slow and production of five out of eight sectors decreased. She further said, while coal output remained under pressure due to elevated base, excessive rain in early june 2025 affected power generation.
These sectors performed well
He further said, encouragingly, the production of cement and steel sectors achieved 9.2-9.3 percent growth in june 2025. These sectors grew well in the first quarter of FY 2026, which means that strong GVA growth will also be achieved in the construction sector. Economists estimate that this slow performance of infrastructure will impact the overall GDP growth in the first quarter of FY 26.
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