Wholesale Price Indices for Primary Articles and Fuel & Power in India (Base: 2004-05 = 100) Review for the week ended 9th July, 2011
The WPI for the week ended 9th July, 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 197.7 (Provisional) from 197.6 (Provisional) for the previous week.
The annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis, stood at 11.13 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 09/07/2011 (over 10/07/2010) as compared to 11.58 percent (Provisional) for the previous week (ended 02/07/2011).
The groups and items for which the index showed variations during the week are as follows:-
The index for ‘Food Articles’ group remained unchanged at its previous week’s level of 191.7 (Provisional). The items for which the index showed increase are ragi (12%), fruits & vegetables (2%), barley, gram, arhar, masur, poultry chicken and tea (1% each). However the index for fish marine (6%), maize (3%), fish inland (2%) and jowar (1%) declined during the week.
The index for 'Non-Food Articles' group rose by 0.1 percent to 175.9 (Provisional) from 175.8 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of niger seed (20%), gingelly seed and gaur seed (4%), raw rubber, fodder and raw jute (2% each) and flowers and rape & mustard seed (1% each). However, the prices of groundnut seed and soyabean (2% each) and cotton seed, sunflower, mesta, raw cotton, raw silk and castor seed (1% each) declined.
FUEL & POWER (Weight 14.91%)
The index and annual rate of inflation calculated on point to point basis remained unchanged at their previous week’s level of 165.6 (Provisional) and 11.89 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 09/07/2011 (over 10/07/2010).
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