Wholesale Price Indices for Primary Articles and Fuel & Power in India (Base: 2004-05 = 100) Review for the week ended 23rd April, 2011 (03 Vaisakha, 1933 Saka)
The WPI for the week ended 23rd April, 2011 in respect of ‘Primary Articles’ and ‘Fuel & Power’ is given below:
PRIMARY ARTICLES (Weight 20.12%)
The index for this major group rose by 0.8 percent to 192.6 (Provisional) from 191.1 (Provisional) for the previous week.
The annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis, stood at 12.11 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 23/04/2011 (over 24/04/2010) as compared to 12.08 percent (Provisional) for the previous week (ended 16/04/2011).
The groups and items for which the index showed variations during the week are as follows:-
The index for 'Food Articles' group rose by 1.0 percent to 184.5 (Provisional) from 182.6 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of fruits & vegetables (4%), barley (3%), jowar (2%) and bajra, urad, ragi, condiments & spices and fish-marine (1% each). However, the prices of gram, masur and arhar (1% each) declined.
The index for 'Non-Food Articles' group rose by 0.4 percent to 193.3 (Provisional) from 192.5 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of flowers and mesta (6% each), gingelly seed (sesamum) (4%), fodder (2%) and castor seed, raw jute, raw silk, groundnut seed and soyabean (1% each). However, the prices of sunflower and gaur seed (3% each) and coir fibre (2%) declined.
FUEL & POWER (Weight 14.91%)
The index for this major group remained unchanged at its previous week's level of 160.3 (Provisional).
The annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis, stood at 13.53 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 23/04/2011 (over 24/04/2010) as compared to 13.53 percent (Provisional) for the previous week (ended 16/04/2011).
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