(Per cent)
				Tea		Cotton/blended		Silk and rayon
ITEMS				(11)		(46)		(32)
				1995-96	1996-97	1995-96	1996-97	1995-96	1996-97
1				2	3	4	5	6	7
GROWTH RATES
1.	Sales $			29.8	1.6	19.8	-1.0	15.9	12.9
2.	Value of production			30.3	1.0	15.7	-3.2	18.1	8.7
3.	Total Income			23.3	1.3	16.0	-2.3	19.8	8.5
4.	Manufacturing expenses			29.4	-2.5	22.4	-6.9	19.0	66.0
5.	Remuneration to employees			18.6	7.6	7.4	10.9	24.3	23.9
6.	Depreciation provision			-3.8	3.3	21.5	13.5	24.2	227.1
7.	Gross profits			77.7	-8.9	-4.5	0.5	17.1	-49.7
8.	Interest			32.0	-12.9	35.4	11.7	27.8	46.4
9.	Operating profits			124.9	-6.4	-44.0	-26.1	14.9	-72.2
10.	Non-operating surplus/deficit			-55.5	-8.7	-44.5	50.9	-19.7	-48.3
11.	Profits before tax			58.5	-6.7	-44.1	-10.9	12.5	-71.0
12.	Tax provision			50.7	-0.9	-86.4	344.3	-59.9	**
13.	Profits after tax			64.9	-11.1	-34.8	-27.1	13.1	-75.4
14.	Dividend paid			41.8	-17.6	6.6	-9.4	32.0	-3.7
15.	Profits retained			109.2	-2.5	-45.0	-35.6	8.3	-97.7
16.	Gross savings			24.2	0.8	-16.2	-5.8	12.6	-0.9
17.	(a)		Gross value added	39.5	2.5	-1.5	6.1	7.7	12.3
	(b)	Net value added		44.2	2.5	-5.6	4.2	4.3	-40.1
18.	Net worth @			2.3	1.9	16.7	3.8	15.1	0.1
19.	Total borrowings @			-10.2	13.1	16.6	-7.2	48.9	51.8
	Of which, from banks @			-11.6	2.5	35.2	-28.0	70.7	13.8
20.	Trade dues and other current liabilities @			12.7	-1.1	15.6	13.6	37.5	59.5
21.	(a)	Gross fixed assets @		4.3	3.3	14.2	8.6	52.9	25.8
	(b)	Net fixed assets @		2.3	1.5	13.1	4.1	65.4	19.0
22.	Inventories @			0.6	-14.3	0.2	-6.2	10.6	20.0
23.	(a)	Gross physical assets @		3.9	1.4	10.1	4.6	47.3	25.2
	(b)	Net physical assets @		2.1	-0.6	8.0	0.3	56.0	19.1
24.	(a)	Total gross assets @		2.8	4.2	16.4	2.9	26.2	28.4
	(b)	Total net assets @		1.5	3.3	16.4	-0.1	27.4	24.9
25.	Total earnings in foreign currencies			21.3	14.4	27.9	38.2	-3.1	35.0
	Of which, Exports			22.4	12.8	22.3	28.8	-6.3	21.7
26.	Total expenditure in foreign currencies			79.7	-40.1	27.9	-45.3	74.8	15.8
	Of which, Imports			119.5	-46.7	28.5	-48.3	62.0	22.9

								Per cent)
								Electrical
				Engineering		Motor vehicle		machinery
ITEMS				(244)		(42)		(64)
				1995-96	1996-97	1995-96	1996-97	1995-96	1996-97
1				8	9	10	11	12	13
GROWTH RATES
1.	Sales $			30.4	14.2	33.9	20.5	27.5	5.7
2.	Value of production			31.1	13.4	35.8	20.6	26.8	3.2
3.	Total Income			30.5	13.6	36.1	20.9	26.7	4.0
4.	Manufacturing expenses			32.1	12.6	37.8	20.3	29.1	1.3
5.	Remuneration to employees			25.9	14.9	30.6	15.1	22.3	12.9
6.	Depreciation provision			26.3	28.9	31.5	33.5	22.1	18.0
7.	Gross profits			37.0	8.2	42.4	20.3	20.9	-1.4
8.	Interest			17.8	23.8	6.4	43.6	25.1	25.8
9.	Operating profits			46.4	2.2	53.3	15.4	19.1	-13.7
10.	Non-operating surplus/deficit			-77.5	174.3	-	-	-84.3	**
11.	Profits before tax			34.0	5.0	47.1	17.8	11.6	-1.9
12.	Tax provision			40.7	14.0	49.5	14.5	16.1	-2.4
13.	Profits after tax			31.3	1.2	46.0	19.4	9.3	-1.7
14.	Dividend paid			36.2	9.6	50.4	21.4	11.0	2.9
15.	Profits retained			29.7	-1.7	44.7	18.8	8.7	-3.3
16.	Gross savings			27.4	10.0	40.2	23.5	13.3	4.0
17.	(a)		Gross value added	29.6	13.3	34.6	19.5	19.9	5.7
	(b)	Net value added		30.3	11.1	35.0	17.6	19.7	4.4
18.	Net worth @			29.5	20.0	42.8	33.3	16.6	14.1
19.	Total borrowings @			22.9	35.2	17.0	68.4	34.7	16.5
	Of which, from banks @			41.6	28.9	38.1	41.7	51.4	13.0
20.	Trade dues and other current liabilities @			25.5	4.9	28.3	0.1	29.3	-1.4
21.	(a)	Gross fixed assets @		24.5	25.3	30.5	28.0	20.8	19.1
	(b)	Net fixed assets @		28.9	29.0	42.7	34.7	23.0	20.8
22.	Inventories @			20.0	6.0	17.4	11.0	23.3	0.5
23.	(a)	Gross physical assets @		23.2	19.8	26.9	23.8	21.7	12.3
	(b)	Net physical assets @		25.3	20.3	32.2	26.0	23.1	11.0
24.	(a)	Total gross assets @		24.9	20.2	28.7	29.4	24.2	10.4
	(b)	Total net assets @		26.4	20.5	31.9	31.9	25.2	9.5
25.	Total earnings in foreign currencies			33.3	10.9	22.8	18.9	4.9	25.2
	Of which, Exports			35.6	-2.0	22.2	8.1	14.0	10.4
26.	Total expenditure in foreign currencies			41.6	17.2	58.9	20.8	47.0	10.2
	Of which, Imports			45.4	17.7	64.0	17.5	48.7	7.2

								(Per cent)
				Machinery other		Foundries and		Ferrous/
				than transport &		engineering		Non-Ferrous
				electrical		workshop		metal products
ITEMS				(62)		(36)		(35)
				1995-96	1996-97	1995-96	1996-97	1995-96	1996-97
1				14	15	16	17	18	19
GROWTH RATES

1.	Sales $			25.6	13.5	34.6	5.8	23.5	16.2
2.	Value of production			25.0	13.8	35.9	1.6	23.8	19.7
3.	Total Income			22.7	13.7	34.1	1.1	23.8	19.6
4.	Manufacturing expenses			26.2	13.6	31.9	1.4	24.1	18.5
5.	Remuneration to employees			21.1	14.0	25.6	16.2	21.8	23.5
6.	Depreciation provision			14.6	12.7	34.7	39.1	21.1	30.2
7.	Gross profits			26.9	17.2	59.5	-34.7	22.5	21.8
8.	Interest			4.3	19.1	41.9	-0.9	10.7	39.0
9.	Operating profits			38.6	16.5	82.5	-69.2	37.0	4.6
10.	Non-operating surplus/deficit			-80.2	39.9	-70.6	-31.7	70.7	-16.4
11.	Profits before tax			13.1	17.4	51.4	-67.7	41.3	1.4
12.	Tax provision			33.5	16.3	116.9	33.5	47.8	42.7
13.	Profits after tax			3.9	18.0	47.8	-75.9	39.4	-11.8
14.	Dividend paid			28.6	13.2	34.4	-18.5	37.9	10.5
15.	Profits retained			-3.3	20.0	54.9	-	39.9	-20.4
16.	Gross savings			2.3	17.4	37.6	-40.1	29.6	5.6
17.	(a)  Gross value added			25.1	15.7	37.5	-9.2	22.9	24.7
	(b)  Net value added			26.3	16.0	39.6	-19.7	23.3	23.6
18.	Net worth @			18.4	18.5	28.0	**	27.3	12.8
19.	Total borrowings @			13.9	14.1	28.3	28.2	18.2	30.2
	Of which, from banks @			34.5	24.6	50.2	26.6	34.5	25.6
20.	Trade dues and other current liabilities @			15.2	7.2	28.0	12.9	23.4	31.5
21.	(a)  Gross fixed assets @			16.3	17.1	25.5	30.4	18.2	23.8
	(b)  Net fixed assets @			18.7	19.4	26.7	32.1	17.8	25.5
22.	Inventories @			17.5	8.5	23.3	-8.9	21.4	30.8
23.	(a)  Gross physical assets @			16.7	14.0	25.0	21.0	19.0	25.4
	(b)  Net physical assets @			18.1	14.0	25.7	20.3	18.9	27.1
24.	(a)  Total gross assets @			15.8	13.1	27.5	16.7	21.6	23.6
	(b)  Total net assets @			16.4	12.9	28.2	15.9	22.0	24.3
25.	Total earnings in foreign currencies			31.6	-0.6	73.3	-17.7	81.0	82.6
	Of which, Exports			38.7	-6.2	72.3	-22.0	61.4	2.6
26.	Total expenditure in foreign currencies			14.2	15.4	48.6	6.6	17.7	71.5
	Of which, Imports			17.9	25.1	53.4	8.7	16.9	76.0

								(Per cent)
				Chemicals and		Medicines and
				chemical		pharmaceutical		Paints and
				products		preparations		varnishes
ITEMS				(137)		(34)		(5)
				1995-96	1996-97	1995-96	1996-97	1995-96	1996-97
1				20	21	22	23	24	25
GROWTH RATES
1.	Sales $			19.9	7.3	12.4	16.8	31.1	8.9
2.	Value of production			20.8	6.4	12.9	16.1	28.7	6.2
3.	Total Income			20.8	5.6	16.3	12.1	28.3	6.5
4.	Manufacturing expenses			19.3	7.8	11.7	14.3	30.1	2.0
5.	Remuneration to employees			17.7	5.6	16.4	0.3	17.6	14.4
6.	Depreciation provision			19.7	22.3	21.5	24.3	-50.6	179.5
7.	Gross profits			28.6	-2.2	21.3	29.5	20.5	16.1
8.	Interest			22.7	11.5	16.2	37.6	33.8	16.0
9.	Operating profits			32.3	-10.1	23.1	26.8	16.8	16.1
10.	Non-operating surplus/deficit			-7.1	-56.4	**	-88.5	-12.3	7.6
11.	Profits before tax			27.6	-14.0	48.0	-0.3	16.0	15.9
12.	Tax provision			40.5	22.0	45.2	15.9	4.8	22.9
13.	Profits after tax			25.1	-21.7	48.8	-4.8	23.5	12.0
14.	Dividend paid			26.7	-1.6	100.8	-15.6	20.4	71.2
15.	Profits retained			24.4	-31.0	32.7	0.2	24.9	-14.1
16.	Gross savings			21.8	-12.9	28.7	6.8	6.6	7.6
17.	(a)		Gross value added	23.5	4.9	14.8	23.5	15.4	19.4
	(b)	Net value added		24.2	2.4	14.3	23.3	20.2	14.5
18.	Net worth @			18.1	12.1	18.5	20.3	21.2	28.5
19.	Total borrowings @			14.2	16.5	23.8	2.9	29.7	2.1
	Of which, from banks @			24.0	19.0	50.7	-3.9	67.8	-0.5
20.	Trade dues and other current liabilities @			14.5	14.1	9.3	25.4	23.1	14.0
21.	(a)	Gross fixed assets @		14.9	17.3	25.6	18.0	14.8	33.1
	(b)	Net fixed assets @		15.5	18.4	30.2	18.4	14.8	41.8
22.	Inventories @			17.7	6.2	22.3	9.4	15.0	-1.6
23.	(a)	Gross physical assets @		15.4	15.2	24.5	15.3	14.9	15.8
	(b)	Net physical assets @		16.0	15.3	27.0	14.9	14.9	15.4
24.	(a)	Total gross assets @		15.7	13.9	19.6	14.5	21.5	17.8
	(b)	Total net assets @		16.2	13.8	20.2	14.2	22.5	17.8
25.	Total earnings in foreign currencies			26.4	15.8	42.3	22.8	0.5	-28.4
	Of which, Exports			21.5	20.6	31.4	27.1	-0.6	-29.8
26.	Total expenditure in foreign currencies			33.0	14.4	40.7	22.9	44.8	38.8
	Of which, Imports			34.6	13.1	39.8	15.4	42.8	39.4

(Per cent)

				Basic industrial		Chemical		Cement
				chemicals		fertilizers
ITEMS				(64)		(16)		(23)
				1995-96	1996-97	1995-96	1996-97	1995-96	1996-97

	1			26	27	28	29	30	31
GROWTH RATES

1.	Sales $			21.7	2.1	16.7	4.1	22.8	2.4
2.	Value of production			23.9	0.9	21.5	2.0	24.9	1.8
3.	Total Income			22.9	1.2	22.0	3.0	23.2	1.5
4.	Manufacturing expenses			21.6	4.5	26.9	4.2	17.5	8.7
5.	Remuneration to employees			19.5	9.7	19.1	12.9	20.3	11.3
6.	Depreciation provision			21.8	20.4	8.2	22.5	26.8	22.2
7.	Gross profits			32.8	-13.9	13.3	-7.9	60.3	-35.7
8.	Interest			23.5	6.9	5.0	3.7	14.8	26.2
9.	Operating profits			40.3	-28.5	20.8	-16.9	98.5	-65.8
10.	Non-operating surplus/deficit			-75.8	73.0	-67.1	**	-40.8	-76.3
11.	Profits before tax			25.3	-26.0	18.1	-10.8	72.9	-66.4
12.	Tax provision			71.4	31.7	**	129.7	**	-59.3
13.	Profits after tax			21.2	-33.3	12.2	-21.2	53.3	-67.8
14.	Dividend paid			12.4	-0.6	-1.2	3.7	61.0	-26.2
15.	Profits retained			25.1	-46.3	18.8	-31.5	51.3	-79.3
16.	Gross savings			22.7	-22.0	14.5	-11.2	42.3	-46.2
17.	(a)  Gross value added			27.9	-2.9	11.8	0.7	45.8	-16.2
	(b)  Net value added			29.2	-7.0	12.5	-3.6	49.6	-22.6
18.	Net worth @			18.2	8.6	14.7	9.2	32.7	5.5
19.	Total borrowings @			11.9	20.5	12.0	25.6	1.8	38.7
	Of which, from banks @			12.9	30.4	3.6	38.4	11.5	55.1
20.	Trade dues and other current liabilities @			18.4	10.5	24.3	15.5	13.1	11.4
21.	(a)  Gross fixed assets @			13.1	17.0	10.5	17.2	13.3	20.5
	(b)  Net fixed assets @			13.0	18.2	9.4	19.7	14.0	25.0
22.	Inventories @			19.0	4.5	28.3	7.7	29.2	9.0
23.	(a)  Gross physical assets @			14.0	15.2	12.7	15.8	15.2	18.9
	(b)  Net physical assets @			14.1	15.5	12.6	17.3	16.7	22.0
24.	(a)  Total gross assets @			14.9	14.0	14.0	16.2	15.0	17.1
	(b)  Total net assets @			15.3	13.9	14.3	17.3	16.1	18.7
25.	Total earnings in foreign currencies			13.1	3.7	-31.7	27.5	-0.3	1.7
	Of which, Exports			11.1	9.3	-13.6	1.7	-0.9	0.4
26.	Total expenditure in foreign currencies			31.5	10.3	23.3	38.2	68.3	47.7
	Of which, Imports			34.2	11.1	15.7	43.6	105.0	52.7

								(Per cent)
				Rubber and		Paper and paper		Construction
				rubber products		products
ITEMS				(13)		(25)		(12)
				1995-96	1996-97	1995-96	1996-97	1995-96	1996-97
1				32	33	34	35	36	37
GROWTH RATES

1.	Sales $			41.2	18.3	32.5	-3.6	39.7	8.3
2.	Value of production			42.8	16.1	36.8	-5.3	40.8	5.1
3.	Total Income			41.3	17.1	34.9	-4.8	41.3	6.1
4.	Manufacturing expenses			50.2	16.0	36.3	-1.7	37.2	-0.3
5.	Remuneration to employees			23.8	15.4	15.6	11.7	6.7	20.9
6.	Depreciation provision			0.5	16.1	17.0	16.3	80.7	-7.4
7.	Gross profits			51.4	14.7	59.1	-45.7	25.3	6.7
8.	Interest			31.0	23.2	18.9	16.8	25.5	47.8
9.	Operating profits			**	-0.6	89.5	-75.3	25.2	-16.6
10.	Non-operating surplus/deficit			-61.3	**	-61.2	110.4	3.2	-21.1
11.	Profits before tax			33.0	35.1	66.6	-68.7	24.3	-16.7
12.	Tax provision			21.7	52.0	84.2	-54.2	57.0	10.9
13.	Profits after tax			37.6	29.1	63.3	-71.8	16.7	-25.3
14.	Dividend paid			20.4	8.5	5.9	-13.8	-9.5	17.9
15.	Profits retained			47.7	39.0	76.4	-79.7	24.0	-34.0
16.	Gross savings			17.4	26.4	54.8	-53.3	38.7	-25.0
17.	(a)  Gross value added			29.0	14.6	39.7	-21.5	17.9	10.4
	(b)  Net value added			34.9	14.3	43.4	-26.5	13.5	12.4
18.	Net worth @			15.1	12.1	23.9	3.5	26.7	19.7
19.	Total borrowings @			11.2	10.7	4.7	18.4	12.0	24.3
	Of which, from banks @			39.7	4.3	23.5	8.7	21.0	43.6
20.	Trade dues and other current liabilities @			30.5	0.2	27.2	4.8	39.3	18.4
21.	(a)  Gross fixed assets @			0.6	11.6	14.4	14.8	8.4	17.4
	(b)  Net fixed assets @			-3.9	11.2	17.0	16.6	2.2	20.9
22.	Inventories @			41.1	-4.0	19.3	-4.6	37.7	16.4
23.	(a)  Gross physical assets @			10.7	7.1	15.4	11.0	25.2	16.7
	(b)  Net physical assets @			11.5	5.4	17.6	10.7	27.0	17.5
24.	(a)  Total gross assets @			15.9	9.0	15.7	9.2	28.2	19.4
	(b)  Total net assets @			17.4	8.5	17.3	8.5	29.3	19.9
25.	Total earnings in foreign currencies			-4.1	15.0	80.7	-18.8	4.0	151.2
	Of which, Exports			-4.6	16.4	96.8	-17.1	75.9	225.3
26.	Total expenditure in foreign currencies			60.1	-8.2	67.4	2.5	51.1	136.9
	Of which, Imports			102.9	-7.9	74.0	3.2	169.1	111.2

								(Per cent)
				Electricity		Trading		Diversified
				generation
				and supply
ITEMS				(6)		(25)		(8)
				1995-96	1996-97	1995-96	1996-97	1995-96	1996-97
1				38	39	40	41	42	43
GROWTH RATES

1.	Sales $			17.5	11.5	33.9	12.3	25.2	10.1
2.	Value of production			18.6	11.6	34.6	12.6	25.7	9.4
3.	Total Income			20.6	11.3	34.2	12.8	26.8	8.1
4.	Manufacturing expenses			5.3	16.6	37.0	13.0	27.9	11.5
5.	Remuneration to employees			11.1	16.4	19.5	16.4	17.6	11.4
6.	Depreciation provision			48.9	25.2	23.0	122.4	33.3	20.9
7.	Gross profits			69.2	-12.1	36.3	4.1	27.4	-11.6
8.	Interest			20.6	4.0	-3.7	33.4	35.6	23.5
9.	Operating profits			96.9	-17.7	57.8	-5.6	22.2	-36.0
10.	Non-operating surplus/deficit			-	-	-55.1	-	72.5	1.8
11.	Profits before tax			**	-19.8	33.4	-15.9	25.9	-32.2
12.	Tax provision			**	14.9	46.8	31.4	80.0	-15.9
13.	Profits after tax			71.5	-28.4	30.5	-27.7	20.4	-34.6
14.	Dividend paid			50.1	11.6	44.5	36.4	10.8	-5.5
15.	Profits retained			77.5	-37.9	25.2	-55.4	22.7	-40.8
16.	Gross savings			66.4	-16.0	24.7	-15.1	-22.4	31.7
17.	(a)  Gross value added			52.4	-3.7	25.6	14.0	-20.3	61.8
	(b)  Net value added			53.3	-10.7	25.8	4.6	-21.9	57.3
18.	Net worth @			30.8	11.8	29.8	16.4	15.3	9.6
19.	Total borrowings @			-4.8	0.6	13.5	-4.5	13.5	13.0
	Of which, from banks @			6.9	**	12.7	10.2	6.6	57.1
20.	Trade dues and other current liabilities @			10.1	21.7	39.5	-14.3	17.3	5.8
21.	(a)  Gross fixed assets @			8.9	9.5	23.4	35.5	20.0	14.6
	(b)  Net fixed assets @			4.5	4.5	23.8	31.5	21.6	13.7
22.	Inventories @			15.6	39.7	27.2	5.8	26.3	5.6
23.	(a)  Gross physical assets @			9.4	11.9	25.0	23.1	21.1	12.9
	(b)  Net physical assets @			5.4	7.7	25.4	18.7	22.7	11.8
24.	(a)  Total gross assets @			17.1	11.7	30.0	5.0	15.0	11.5
	(b)  Total net assets @			15.0	9.0	30.3	3.7	14.8	10.4
25.	Total earnings in foreign currencies			-87.6	**	52.2	6.2	36.8	43.8
	Of which, Exports			-	-	53.3	5.7	31.4	6.5
26.	Total expenditure in foreign currencies			-7.7	71.2	32.1	3.0	-12.2	-9.0
	Of which, Imports			-19.3	110.9	46.8	3.4	44.1	-11.1

$	Net of rebates and discounts and excise duty and cess.
@	Adjusted for revaluation, etc.
-	Nil or negligible.
*	Numerator and denominator negative.
@@	Numerator negative.
$$	Denominator negative.
**	Denominator nil or negligible.