mumbai for the fifth consecutive quarter india inc is expected to report singledigit growth in revenues when results are announced later in the month for the just concluded september quarter q2fy16 this is mainly because of fragile consumption demand especially in the rural areas weakness in investmentlinked sectors and the meltdown in global commodity prices a crisil research report said together these negative factors are also expected to more than offset the gains from the exportoriented sectors however revenue growth is expected to improve in the second half of fiscal 2016 following a mild uptick in consumption increased government spending and the statistical lowbase effect since revenue growth was 3 in the second half of the last fiscal the report said despite this revenue and earnings growth for the entire fiscal is likely to remain in single digits and well below con sensus estimates it said exportlinked sectors will be the only bright spot in terms of top line though merchandise exports have been declining for severa months now listed expor ters primarily in the it ser vices and pharmaceutica sectors are expected to grow at around 13 in the september quarter helped partly by the 7 deprecia tion in the rupee said prasad koparkar senior director crisil research domestic consumptiondriven sectors with high dependence on rural consumption will be impacted by tardy growth in rural income belownormal monsoon and poor pricing power he said the report also pointed out that while public investments have started to gain traction this is yet to reflect in the performance of investmentlinked sectors because of overcapacity and weak demand in enduse sectors such as real estate