Wholesale Price Indices for Primary Articles and Fuel & Power in India (Base: 2004-05 = 100) Review for the week ended 30th April, 2011 (10 Vaisakha, 1933 Saka)
The WPI for the week ended 30th 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 0.1 percent to 192.8 (Provisional) from 192.6 (Provisional) for the previous week.
The annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis, stood at 11.96 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 30/04/2011 (over 01/05/2010) as compared to 12.11 percent (Provisional) for the previous week (ended 23/04/2011).
The groups and items for which the index showed variations during the week are as follows:-
The index for 'Food Articles' group rose by 0.1 percent to184.7 (Provisional) from 184.5 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of fish-inland(5%), egg(3%), barley(2%) and ragi, fish-marine, bajra and condiments & spices (1% each) .However, the prices of poultry chicken (4%), tea and masur(2% each) and gram , moong , arhar and urad (1% each) declined.
The index for 'Non-Food Articles' group rose by 0.2 percent to 193.7 (Provisional) from 193.3 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of flowers (7%), gingelly seed (3 %), gaur seed (2 %) and rape & mustard seed (2% each) and copra and raw jute(1%each). However, the prices of sunflower (2 %) and raw rubber, castor seed, linseed and fodder (1% each) 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 12.25 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 30/04/2011(over 01/05/2010) as compared to 13.53 percent (Provisional) for the previous week (ended 23/04/2011).
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