Wholesale Price Indices for Primary Articles and Fuel & Power in India (Base: 2004-05 = 100) Review for the week ended 30th April, 2011 (10 Vaisakha, 1933 Saka)

12-5-2011

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Press Information Bureau

Government of India

Ministry of Commerce & Industry

12-May-2011

The WPI for the week ended 30^th April, 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 192.8 (Provisional) from 192.6 (Provisional) for the previous week.

The annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis, stood at 11.96 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 30/04/2011 (over 01/05/2010) as compared to 12.11 percent (Provisional) for the previous week (ended 23/04/2011).

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

The index for 'Food Articles' group rose by 0.1 percent to184.7 (Provisional) from 184.5 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of fish-inland(5%), egg(3%), barley(2%) and ragi, fish-marine, bajra and condiments & spices (1% each) .However, the prices of poultry chicken (4%), tea and masur(2% each) and gram , moong , arhar and urad (1% each) declined.

The index for 'Non-Food Articles' group rose by 0.2 percent to 193.7 (Provisional) from 193.3 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of flowers (7%), gingelly seed (3 %), gaur seed (2 %) and rape & mustard seed (2% each) and copra and raw jute(1%each). However, the prices of sunflower (2 %) and raw rubber, castor seed, linseed and fodder (1% each) declined.

FUEL & POWER (Weight 14.91%)

The index for this major group remained unchanged at its previous week's level of 160.3 (Provisional).

The annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis, stood at 12.25 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 30/04/2011(over 01/05/2010) as compared to 13.53 percent (Provisional) for the previous week (ended 23/04/2011).

Build up inflation over the week, financial year end and over the year is given in Annexure-I for some important items. Trend of rate of inflation during last six weeks is also given for some important items in Annexure II.

Next date of press release: 19/05/2011 for the week ending 07/05/2011

Office of the Economic Adviser, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, New Delhi, 12/05/2011

Annexure-I

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

Week Ending 30^th April, 2011 (Base: 2004-05)
Commodities/Major Groups/Groups/Sub-Groups	Weight	WPI Apr. 30, 2011	Latest week over week		Build up from end March		Year on year		52 week Average
Commodities/Major Groups/Groups/Sub-Groups	Weight	WPI Apr. 30, 2011	2010-11	2011-12	2010-11	2011-12	2010-11	2011-12	52 week Average
Primary Articles	20.12	192.8	0.23	0.10	3.36	2.44	20.76	11.96	16.88
Food Articles	14.34	184.7	0.88	0.11	4.32	2.90	21.46	7.70	14.54
Cereals	3.37	172.6	0.00	0.12	-0.42	0.47	7.14	4.54	4.96
Rice	1.79	167.1	0.06	0.06	0.37	0.36	7.56	2.08	5.34
Wheat	1.12	168.3	-0.06	-0.06	-1.69	-1.92	7.68	0.06	2.27
Pulses	0.72	187.0	0.69	-1.11	2.70	-1.27	24.46	-9.05	0.56
Vegetables	1.74	145.7	6.18	-1.09	16.58	0.83	8.62	-3.64	12.77
Potato	0.20	110.5	2.05	-1.87	12.46	2.98	-29.39	-3.58	-35.21
Onion	0.18	162.0	3.08	-0.18	-8.10	-4.76	-13.30	12.42	30.41
Fruits	2.11	215.2	-1.79	0.23	9.36	18.11	21.21	35.43	20.68
Milk	3.24	179.3	0.82	0.00	0.82	1.24	28.38	4.30	18.00
Egg, Meat & Fish	2.41	194.7	1.58	1.09	6.34	-1.37	46.77	4.62	22.76
Non-Food Articles	4.26	193.7	-0.40	0.21	0.00	0.83	16.29	28.62	23.15
Fibres	0.88	284.7	-0.07	0.07	0.86	0.28	17.85	85.84	47.80
Oil Seeds	1.78	153.2	0.00	0.39	2.06	1.59	5.56	10.45	4.96
Minerals	1.52	267.0	-2.93	0.00	2.98	3.01	23.83	11.95	21.97
Fuel & Power	14.91	160.3	1.13	0.00	1.93	1.14	14.79	12.25	12.25
Liquefied Petroleum Gas	0.91	128.9	0.00	0.00	3.30	0.00	3.76	11.31	13.26
Petrol	1.09	158.6	0.00	0.00	1.09	0.00	18.04	21.81	20.17
High Speed Diesel Oil	4.67	153.6	0.00	0.00	0.69	0.00	15.83	5.49	13.12

Annexure-II

Trend of Rate of Inflation for some important items during last six weeks

Commodities/Major Groups/Groups/Sub-Groups	Weight (%)	Rate of Inflation for the week ending
Commodities/Major Groups/Groups/Sub-Groups	Weight (%)	30-Apr-11	23-Apr-11	16-Apr-11	09-Apr-11	02-Apr-11	26-Mar-11
Primary Articles	20.12	11.96	12.11	12.08	11.96	11.40	12.97
Food Articles	14.34	7.70	8.53	8.76	8.74	8.28	9.18
Cereals	3.37	4.54	4.42	4.49	4.48	3.49	3.62
Rice	1.79	2.08	2.08	2.08	2.08	2.20	2.08
Wheat	1.12	0.06	0.06	0.48	1.31	-1.05	0.29
Pulses	0.72	-9.05	-7.39	-6.49	-5.67	-4.76	-5.39
Vegetables	1.74	-3.64	3.44	-0.21	1.53	5.41	11.41
Potato	0.20	-3.58	0.27	-1.61	1.21	-2.73	5.30
Onion	0.18	12.42	16.09	10.96	8.28	7.74	8.48
Fruits	2.11	35.43	32.69	28.43	25.15	24.14	25.40
Milk	3.24	4.30	5.16	5.10	4.05	4.05	3.87
Egg, Meat & Fish	2.41	4.62	5.13	12.14	14.96	11.02	12.80
Non-Food Articles	4.26	28.62	27.84	26.48	27.69	26.77	27.56
Fibres	0.88	85.84	85.58	84.96	86.83	86.74	86.90
Oil Seeds	1.78	10.45	10.02	9.04	9.50	10.64	10.96
Minerals	1.52	11.95	8.67	8.67	5.49	5.49	11.92
Fuel & Power	14.91	12.25	13.53	13.53	13.05	12.97	13.13
Liquefied Petroleum Gas	0.92	11.31	11.31	11.31	11.31	11.31	14.99
Petrol	1.09	21.81	21.81	21.81	21.81	21.81	23.14
High Speed Diesel Oil	4.67	5.49	5.49	5.49	5.49	5.49	6.22