New Delhi, Feb. 28 -- India's eight key infrastructure sectors recorded a 4.6% growth in January 2025, up from 4.2% in the same month last year, according to official data released on Friday.

However, this was lower than the 4.8% expansion seen in December 2024.

Meanwhile, refinery products, fertiliser, and cement production saw higher growth, rising by 8.3%, 3%, and 14.5%, respectively, during the month.

For the April-January period of the current fiscal year, core sector growth stood at 4.4%, a sharp decline from the 7.8% recorded in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal.

The eight core sectors-coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, fertiliser, steel, cement, and electricity-account for 40.27% of the Index of Ind...