India among global top 10 in industrial production

India has emerged as one of the world’s top ten countries in industrial production, according to UNIDO’s (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) ‘Yearbook of Industrial Statistics 2010′. In 2009, India overtook Canada, Brazil and Mexico and moved up to the ninth position, three places up from the 12th position it held in 2008. The top ten in 2009 were: the U.S., China, Japan, Germany, the Republic of Korea, France, Italy, the U.K., India and Brazil. As per the yearbook, the sectors in which India figures among the global top ten are textiles; leather, leather products and footwear; coke, refined petroleum products, nuclear fuel; chemicals and chemical products; basic metals; electrical machinery and apparatus; and other transport equipment, other than motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers. (March 9, 2010)