In the industrial segment, the cement has seen a better growth for Feb’18, along with the steel

sector which
witnessed slight improvement in its growth.

WPI witnessed progress, whereas, Fuel & Power showed a slight improvement in Mar’18 compared to Feb’18.

The WPI for Food Articles saw a further fall, however, Non-Food Articles for Mar’18 showed a progress with
respect to Feb’18.

It was observed a marginal Export growth, whereas, Non-POL saw a minimal improvement compared to POL
which observed a huge downtrend in Mar’18.

Core Industries and IIP nosedived in August’18.

​Both MHCV and LCV sales declined in April 2019, from the previous month.

CAD, as a percentage of GDP, is estimated to widen to 2.4% for FY19E.

The GDP for Q2FY17 is more than the GDP for Q4FY19E is expected to be 6.5%.

In the industrial segment, electricity growth showed an uptick, while petroleum refinery products sharply rose in
Apr’19.

The PMI – Services trended downward in August ‘18.

The CPI inflation trajectory shows a rapid decrement from Apr’17 to June’17 more than from Dec’18 to Feb’19.

The 10-year G-Sec yield crossed the 8.10% mark showing continuous upward trajectory in September ‘18.

Fiscal deficit for FY19E is likely to be 3.4% of GDP, and to 3.4% and 3.2% in FY20E and FY21E, respectively.

There is a sudden increase in the GDP annual rate from FY!4 to FY15.

More number of sudden changes in the exports as compared to imports.

The trend of inflow in USD FDI for FY18 so far stands at USD 44.9bn.

Flowing to the agriculture segment – it was seen a good production pattern for sugarcane, rice, maize, pulses,
cotton, coarse cereals, albeit, oilseeds observed a downfall for 2017-18 (2nd Adv. Est). The production of
Kharif foodgrains saw fairly better along with Rabi production.

The foreign exchange reserve further fell in Jun’18 from a high value of Mar’18.

A constant decrement is seen in the repo rate by RBI in 2019.