What is the base year of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) in Rajasthan at present?
The correct answer is 2011-12.
Key Points
- The Index of Industrial Production (IIP)
- It is a short-term macroeconomic indicator widely used in measuring the industrial growth of the State.
- The index indicates the relative change over time in the volume of production in the industrial sector and it is an effective tool to measure the trend of current industrial production.
- Presently IIP is constructed based on the base year 2011-12. Hence, Option 3 is correct.
- The Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Department of Planning, Rajasthan has been compiling/releasing an index of industrial production for the Rajasthan State since 1971 as per the guidelines of the Central Statistical Office (CSO), Govt. of India.
- New base year IIP series based on 156 items/product groups for the manufacturing sector.
- Shifting of the base year 2011-12 are in process to get monthly Production data from April 2011 onwards for a selected item for selected units in the prescribed format given by C.S.O.
- Three major sectors in IIP
- Manufacturing:- For Manufacturing Sector the Production data is collecting for selected items from selected industrial units through district statistical officer’s and Now IIP web Portal has been developed for the collection of regular data from districts through an online system.
- Mining:- Mining sector production data is supplied by the Indian Bureau of Mines, (IBM) Nagpur.
- Electricity:- Electricity sector generation figures furnished by the Central Electricity Authority New Delhi.

