Thursday, February 25, 2010

Wholesale Price Indices for Primary Articles and Fuel, Power, Light & Lubricants in India (Base: 1993-94=100)

Review for the week ended 13th February, 2010
 

The WPI for the week ended 13th February, 2010 in respect of ‘Primary Articles and ‘Fuel, Power, Light & Lubricants’ is given below:



PRIMARY ARTICLES (Weight 22.02%)



The WPI for the week ended 13th February, 2010 declined by 0.45 percent to 284.5 (Provisional) from 285.8 (Provisional) for the previous week.



The annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis, stood at 15.84 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 13/02/2010 (over 14/02/2009) as compared to 16.23 percent (Provisional) for the previous week (ended 06/02/2010) and 6.23 percent during the corresponding week (ended14/02/2009) of the previous year.



The groups and items for which the index showed variations during the week are as follows:-



The index for 'Food Articles' group declined by 0.45 percent to 286.2 (Provisional) from 287.5 (Provisional) for the previous week due to lower prices of tea (3%), masur, gram and fruits & vegetables (2% each) and arhar, moong and barley (1% each). However, the prices of bajra and urad (1% each) moved up.



The index for 'Non-Food Articles' group declined by 0.51 percent to 256.0 (Provisional) from 257.3 (Provisional) for the previous week due to lower prices of logs & timber (9%), soyabean (5%) and rape & mustard seed and fodder (1% each). However, the prices of coir fibre (55%), mesta (13%) and raw silk, gingelly seed, castor seed and copra (1% each) moved up.



FUEL, POWER, LIGHT & LUBRICANTS (Weight 14.23%)



The index for this major group remained unchanged at its previous week's level of 355.5 (Provisional).



The annual rate of inflation based on final index, calculated on point to point basis remained unchanged at its previous week’s level of 9.89 percent (Provisional) and it was (-)3.98 percent during the corresponding week (ended 14/02/09) of the previous year

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