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New Delhi : With electricity and steel showing healthy production growth, the eight core infrastructure industries expanded by 5.2% in June as against 4.4% in the same period last year. The industries -- crude oil, petroleum refinery products, natural gas, fertilisers, coal, electricity, cement and finished steel -- have a weight of 37.90% in the overall index of industrial production. With addition of two sectors -- fertilisers and natural gas -- the number of key infrastructure sectors, picked up separately for measuring performance has now gone to eight.