- capital goods industries means industries which produce machine tools which are in turn used for producing articles for current consumption.

here what does articles for current consumption means?

In the given context, articles of current consumption means, final goods, i.e. those goods that are ready for use by the final consumer. For example, cotton is processed with the help of various machines and tools (as produced by the capital goods industry) to produce cloth. Here, cloth is an article of current consumption.