Correct Option: A

Lately, the manufacturing industry has been witnessing a positive overall growth across spectrum. This can be said on the basis of the Industrial Outlook survey that was conducted by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for 2010 on the Indian manufacturing sector. As per UNIDO’s new report titled ‘Yearbook of Industrial Statistics 2010’, India has emerged as one of the world’s top 10 countries in industrial production, while as per the report ‘2010 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index’, by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and the US Council on Competitiveness, India has ranked second for its manufacturing competence.