Wholesale Price Indices for Primary Articles and Fuel & Power in India (Base: 2004-05 = 100) Review for the week ended 23rd July, 2011 (01 Shravana, 1933 Saka)
The WPI for the week ended 23rd July, 2011 in respect of ‘Primary Articles’ and ‘Fuel & Power’ is given below:
PRIMARY ARTICLES (Weight 20.12%)
The index for this major group declined by 0.6 percent to 196.9 (Provisional) from 198.0 (Provisional) for the previous week.
The annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis, stood at 10.99 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 23/07/2011 (over 24/07/2010) as compared to 10.49 percent (Provisional) for the previous week (ended 16/07/2011).
The groups and items for which the index showed variations during the week are as follows:-
The index for 'Food Articles' group declined by 0.6 percent to 192.2 (Provisional) from 193.3 (Provisional) for the previous week due to lower prices of fish-marine, poultry chicken and urad (3% each), fruits & vegetables (2%) and egg, condiments & spices, arhar and pork (1% each). However, the prices of fish-inland, moong and jowar (2% each) and gram, maize, tea, barley and bajra (1% each) moved up
The index for 'Non-Food Articles' group declined by 0.9 percent to 174.9 (Provisional) from 176.4 (Provisional) for the previous week due to lower prices of flowers (18%), raw cotton, niger seed and gingelly seed (3% each) and soyabean (1%). However, the prices of gaur seed (11%), raw silk (6 %), copra (3%), castor seed and cotton seed (2% each) and groundnut seed, rape & mustard seed and sunflower (1% each) moved up.
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 12.12 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 23/07/2011 (over 24/07/2010).
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