Index of Eight Core Industries (Base: 2011-12=100) March, 2019 
Press Information Bureau  Government of India Ministry of Commerce & Industry 30-April-2019 16:58 IST

Index of Eight Core Industries (Base: 2011-12=100) March, 2019 

1. The summary of the Index of Eight Core Industries (base: 2011-12) is given at the Annexure.

Press Information Bureau  Government of India Ministry of Commerce & Industry 01-April-2019 17:00 IST
Index of Eight Core Industries (Base: 2011-12=100) February, 2019 
1. The summary of the Index of Eight Core Industries (base: 2011-12) is given at the Annexure.
2. The Eight Core Industries comprise 40.27 per cent of the weight of items included in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP). The combined Index of Eight Core Industries stood at 125.8 in February, 2019, which was 2.1 percent higher as compared to the index of February, 2018. Its cumulative growth during April to February, 2018-19 was 4.3 percent.
Coal
3. Coal production (weight: 10.33 percent)increased by 7.3 per cent in February, 2019 over February, 2018. Its cumulative index increased by 7.1 percent during April to February, 2018-19 over corresponding period of the previous year.

Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana
Under-nutrition continues to adversely affect majority of women in India. In India, every third woman is undernourished and every second woman is anemic. An undernourished mother almost inevitably gives birth to a low birth weight baby. When poor nutrition starts in-utero, it extends throughout the life cycle since the changes are largely irreversible. Owing to economic and social distress many women continue to work to earn a living for their family right up to the last days of their pregnancy. Furthermore, they resume working soon after childbirth, even though their bodies might not permit it, thus preventing their bodies from fully recovering on one hand, and also impeding their ability to exclusively breastfeed their young infant in the first six months.