The performance of energy intensive industries in India in terms of total factor productivity growth and capacity utilization displays dismal declining trend during post- reform period. The trend for this performance has been intensively researched in this study for the period 1979-80 to 2003-04. This study seeks to measure and analyze econometrically the performance of energy intensive industries in India in view of capacity utilization and total factor productivity growth . Main findings of the present work are not in line with the prevailing opinion. We have found that total...