It has been about two years since October 2009 that the Reserve Bank of India announced its exit from the crisis-driven accommodative monetary policy stance. However, inflation continues to remain elevated, despite sustained monetary policy action.
Manufacturing has continued to maintain a slow but consistent growth trend in the economy, with a contribution to GDP of about 10% BIS Review 104/2000  4  in 1999. The performance of construction has shown a rather irregular pattern since 1983.