The industries in the country utilised only 40 per cent of their installed capacity in the six-month period between Mid-July 2019 to mid-January 2020, reveals the Economic Activities Study Report 2019-20 (Half Yearly) unveiled by Nepal Rastra Bank today.

The results reveal a slump of 20 percentage points in capacity utilisation of the industries compared to the capacity utilisation of 60 per cent in the corresponding period of previous fiscal 2018-19.

The findings are even more worrying as the study covers the period before the coronavirus pandemic, which means that the industrial capacity utilisation is expected to take a further hit in the study of this fiscal year.

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