Production trend in 100 new items, including ice cream, fruit juices and mobile phones, will weigh on measuring the pace of industrial production, as per the new index series approved by the government. The new Index of Industrial Production, which will come into effect from June 10 with base year 2004-05, had been approved by the Committee of Secretaries (CoS), an official said.
The new items in the IIP would also include computer stationery, newspapers, chemicals such as ammonia and ammonia sulphate, electrical products, gems and jewellery and molasses.
On the other hand, obsolete articles like typewriters, loud speakers and VCRs would be taken off to make the series representative of the present-day industrial production and demand scenario. The base year for the new series will be changed to 2004-05 from 1993-94. The IIP for April would be based on the new model of measuring the country's factory output. The April data would be released on June 10
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