volume growth in Eastern region. Benefits from cost optimization were lower than our expectation which coupled with increase in fuel and slag prices led to 2.5 YoY (PLe: 1.7%) increases in cost on per tonne basis. While the profitability is under pressure for the sector due to intense competition, unabated capacity addition and weakness in high margin Trade segment, cement prices continue to remain firm in ACC's key markets of Central UP, MP, Jharkhand, Odisha, etc thereby fetching higher realisations....