NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's infrastructure output expanded 12.7% year-on-year in June, government data showed on Friday.
Infrastructure output, which comprises eight sectors including coal and electricity and accounts for nearly 40% of industrial output, rose 13.7% in April-June period, the data showed.
(Reporting by Aftab Ahmed and Manoj Kumar; Editing by Frank Jack Daniel)
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