Wholesale Price Indices for Primary Articles and Fuel & Power in India (Base: 2004-05 = 100) Review for the week ended 13th August, 2011 (22 Shravana, 1933 Saka)
The WPI for the week ended 13th August, 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 0.5 percent to 198.5 (Provisional) from 197.5 (Provisional) for the previous week.
The annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis, stood at 12.40 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 13/08/2011 (over 14/08/2010) as compared to 11.64 percent (Provisional) for the previous week (ended 06/08/2011).
The groups and items for which the index showed variations during the week are as follows:-
The index for `Food Articles` group rose by 0.4 percent to 192.7 (Provisional) from 191.9 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of fish-inland (2%) and mutton, gram, fruits & vegetables, egg, pork, bajra and masur (1% each). However, the prices of poultry chicken (3%) and jowar and moong (2% each) declined.
The index for `Non-Food Articles` group rose by 1.6 percent to 181.3 (Provisional) from 178.4 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of flowers (27%), raw silk (6%), niger seed and fodder (3% each), raw cotton and rape & mustard seed (2% each) and groundnut seed, sunflower and linseed (1% each). However, the prices of gingelly seed (5%), gaur seed and raw rubber (2% each) and castor seed and copra (1% each) declined.
The index for `Minerals` group declined by 0.5 percent to 301.6 (Provisional) from 303.0 (Provisional) for the previous week due to lower prices of crude petroleum (1%).
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 167.2 (Provisional) and 13.13 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 13/08/2011 (over 14/08/2010).
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