Thursday, December 8, 2011

Wholesale Price Indices for Primary Articles and Fuel & Power in India (Base: 2004-05 = 100) Review for the week ended 26th November, 2011 (05 Agrahayana, 1933 Saka)

The WPI for the week ended 26th November, 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 0.5 percent to 199.3 (Provisional) from 200.4 (Provisional) for the previous week.

The annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis, stood at 6.92 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 26/11/2011 (over 27/11/2010) as compared to 7.74 percent (Provisional) for the previous week (ended 19/11/2011).

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

The index for ‘Food Articles’ group declined by 1.0 percent to 193.8 (Provisional) from 195.7 (Provisional) for the previous week due to lower prices of fish-inland and jowar (3% each), fruits & vegetables, condiments & spices, masur and urad (2% each) and fish-marine, poultry chicken, barley and moong (1% each). However, the prices of ragi (3%), pork (2%) and gram, mutton, maize, egg and arhar (1% each) moved up.

The index for ‘Non-Food Articles’ group rose by 0.6 percent to 177.7 (Provisional) from 176.7 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of flowers (15%), gaur seed and sunflower (4 % each), gingelly seed (3%), copra (2%) and fodder, linseed, rape & mustard seed, raw silk and soyabean (1% each). However, the prices of raw jute (4%), coir fibre (3%), raw cotton (2%) and cotton seed and castor seed (1% each) declined.

FUEL & POWER (Weight 14.91%)

The index for this major group remained unchanged at its previous week`s level of 171.8 (Provisional) and 15.53 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 26/11/2011 (over 27/11/2010)

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