Mumbai: The mining sector witnessed a marked fall in output growth rate in the 2000s as mainly increased domestic demand for crude oil was being met through imports, says a report.
"... The mining sector experienced a marked fall in output growth rate in the 2000s, which is traceable to incremental domestic demand for crude oil being met from imports rather than domestic production," the report released by RBI said Wednesday.
The report is based on trends in output growth, total factor productivity growth and labour productivity growth during 1980-2008 in six broad sectors.
"The main finding is that since 2000 there has been a revival of productivity growth in many industries comprising the Indian economy.
"Comparing the two sub-periods 1980-1999 and 2000-2008, the majority of the disaggregated industries are found to show faster TFP (total factor productivity) growth in the second period," it said.
However, there was a decline in productivity performance in agriculture, construction and mining and quarrying.
Sectors such as manufacturing, electricity, gas & power and services showed improvements in productivity.
"Similar results hold for labour productivity growth. It indicates that nearly two decades of policy reforms in the areas of trade and industry have made a difference."
It showed that the gross value added (GVA), which is the value of output minus the value of intermediate inputs, rose by about 2 percentage points between 1980-99 and 2000-08, showing a rise from 5.2 percent per annum during 1980-99 to 7.6 percent per annum during 2000-08.
"The growth acceleration was rooted in manufacturing, construction and services," it said.
Growth of manufacturing sector stood at 6.13 percent per annum during the period under study.
"However, the growth record of agriculture reveals one of the major weaknesses of the Indian economy," it said.
The GVA for agriculture was 2.96 percent per annum during the period.
Broad sectors such as manufacturing, construction and services experienced acceleration in value added growth rate between 2000 and 2008, it said.
"Among these three sectors, the most marked growth acceleration occurred in construction. The trend growth rate in real gross value added of construction increased from 4.7 percent per annum during 1980-81 to 1999-00 to close to 10 percent per annum from 2000-01 to 2008-09."
Further, the report also found that growth rate of labour input grew the fastest in post & telecommunications, machinery, construction, rubber & plastic products, other services and financial services.
Over the period 1980-2008, the growth in persons employed was driven mainly by construction and the services sectors and the agriculture sector was a laggard, it added.
