Wholesale Price Indices for Primary Articles and Fuel & Power in India (Base: 2004-05 = 100)Review for the week ended 20th November, 2010

The WPI [with base year 2004-05] for the week ended 20^th November, 2010 in respect of 'Primary Articles' and 'Fuel & Power' is given below:

PRIMARY ARTICLES (Weight 20.12%) 

The index for this major group rose by 0.7 percent to 183.4 (Provisional) from 182.2 (Provisional) for the previous week.

The annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis, stood at 12.72 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 20/11/2010 (over 21/11/2009) as compared to 13.38 percent (Provisional) for the previous week (ended 13/11/2010). 

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

The index for ' Food Articles' group rose by 0.2 percent to 180.5 (Provisional) from 180.1 (Provisional)  for the previous week due to higher prices of fish-marine(9%), arhar (3%) and barley, milk, fish-inland, mutton, pork and condiments & spices (1% each). However, the prices of poultry chicken (10%), wheat (3%) and ragi, masur and fruits & vegetables (1% each) declined.

The index for 'Non-Food Articles' group rose by 0.9 percent to 169.1 (Provisional) from 167.6 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of flowers (18%), sunflower (3%), gingelly seed (sesamum) and copra (2% each). However, the prices of raw silk (5%),      raw rubber (3%) and castor seed and groundnut seed (1% each) declined.

The index for 'Minerals' group rose by 3.0 percent to 250.8(Provisional) from 243.4(Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of copper ore (30%), zinc concentrate (26%), magnesite (16%) and barytes (6%). However, the prices of chromite(3%) declined.

FUEL & POWER (Weight 14.91%)

The index for this major group rose by    0.1 percent to 148.6 (Provisional) from 148.5 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of   aviation turbine fuel   (3%),

The annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis, stood at 9.99 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 20/11/2010 (over 21/11/2009) as compared to 10.57 percent (Provisional) for the previous week (ended 13/11/2010). 

Build up inflation over the week, financial year end and over the year is given below for some important items.

Next date of press release: 09/12/2010 for the week ending 27/11/2010

Wholesale Price Index and Rates of Inflation [Base Year: 2004-05]