SAIL8217;s August production up 7

last couple of months,8221; it said in a statement.

The company,however,did not provide comparative figures for the corresponding month of last year.

Month-on-month basis,the company8217;s production has however gone down little bit as it had produced 1.2 MT in July.

In August,its blast furnace productivity,a critical parameter of production efficiency,was up by 9 per cent last month over performance in August,2011.

During April-August,SAIL produced 5.65 MT,up 3 per cent over the same period of last fiscal,the company said.