The growth in eight infrastructure industries slowed to 2.3 per cent in May mainly due to contraction in crude oil, natural gas, coal and fertilizer output.
Essar Oil on Tuesday said it will set up 50 petrol stations before the end of this fiscal.
A countrywide truckers strike has hit India's diesel sales and oil companies could be forced to cut refinery runs and reduce imports if the protest continues, industry officials said on Wednesday.
Consolidated revenue rose to a record Rs 163,854 crore.
The core infrastructure industries had expanded by 5.2 per cent in the previous month.
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