Siemens posted a 125 per cent rise in operating profit to Rs 342 crore for the first quarter ended December 31, 2009.
New orders for Siemens rose by 161 per cent to Rs 5,168 crore and net sales increased by 13 per cent to Rs 1,834 crore.
Its profit after tax decreased by 28 per cent to Rs 236 crore, however the figures are not comparable with same period of previous year as the PAT includes dividend of Rs 223 crore received from Siemens Information System and Siemens Information Processing systems Private.
