Wholesale Price Indices for Primary Articles and Fuel & Power in India (Base: 2004-05 = 100)Review for the week ended 8th January, 2011

20-1-2011

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The WPI for the week ended 8^th January, 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 193.1 (Provisional) from 194.0 (Provisional) for the previous week.

The annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis, stood at 17.03 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 08/01/2011 (over 09/01/2010) as compared to 17.58 percent (Provisional) for the previous week (ended 01/01/2011).

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

The index for 'Food Articles' group declined by 1.2 percent to 190.6 (Provisional) from 192.9 (Provisional) for the previous week due to lower prices of fish-inland and fish-marine (4% each), poultry chicken and fruits & vegetables (3% each), jowar (2%) and arhar (1%). However, the prices of rice and masur (2% each) and barley and condiments & spices (1% each) moved up.

The index for 'Non-Food Articles' group rose by 2.1 percent to 177.1 (Provisional) from 173.5 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of raw cotton (9%), sunflower (5%), castor seed and raw rubber (3% each), gaur seed (2%) and cotton seed, raw silk and groundnut seed (1% each). However, the prices of copra (2%) and safflower (1%) declined.

FUEL & POWER (Weight 14.91%)

The index for this major group and the annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis, has remained unchanged at their previous week's level of 150.9 (Provisional) and 11.53 percent (Provisional).

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: 27/01/2011 for the week ending 15/01/2011

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

Week Ending 8^th January, 2011 (Base: 2004-05)
Commodities/Major Groups/Groups/Sub-Groups	Weight	WPI Jan. 08, 2011	Latest week over week		Build up from end March		Year on year		52 week Average
Commodities/Major Groups/Groups/Sub-Groups	Weight	WPI Jan. 08, 2011	2009-10	2010-11	2009-10	2010-11	2009-10	2010-11	52 week Average
Primary Articles	20.12	193.1	0.00	-0.46	21.23	15.91	18.88	17.03	18.77
Food Articles	14.34	190.6	0.00	-1.19	21.59	15.94	18.62	15.52	17.47
Cereals	3.37	171.1	0.47	0.82	13.35	3.20	16.04	0.23	6.87
Rice	1.79	169.2	0.12	1.62	9.30	3.74	12.36	2.86	6.87
Wheat	1.12	172.2	1.49	0.17	21.38	0.64	22.19	-6.11	6.61
Pulses	0.72	188.8	-0.22	-0.32	39.74	-5.69	41.25	-14.92	10.56
Vegetables	1.74	263.3	-0.44	-3.55	36.30	103.01	-4.78	65.39	9.74
Potatoes	0.20	152.0	-3.39	-4.64	39.57	49.17	54.90	-2.94	-32.92
Onions	0.18	545.9	-1.08	14.83	47.48	248.15	7.53	98.15	11.11
Fruits	2.11	158.5	-0.15	-2.28	11.42	9.08	8.60	15.19	19.36
Milk	3.24	178.4	-0.06	0.00	17.63	4.63	26.51	13.27	24.05
Egg, Meat & Fish	2.41	189.4	0.36	-2.87	32.05	8.23	32.15	12.94	30.33
Non-Food Articles	4.26	177.1	-0.07	2.07	14.30	17.60	12.16	23.07	18.63
Fibres	0.88	220.6	-0.40	6.93	18.25	45.23	9.31	46.77	24.47
Oil Seeds	1.78	141.4	-0.07	0.43	9.12	4.05	7.12	1.00	4.53
Minerals	1.52	261.3	0.00	0.00	33.35	12.82	35.86	16.70	28.59
Fuel & Power	14.91	150.9	0.00	0.00	9.91	7.71	5.87	11.53	11.98
Liquefied Petroleum Gas	0.91	128.9	0.00	0.00	0.45	14.99	-7.20	14.99	9.12
Petrol	1.09	151.7	0.00	0.00	9.97	17.78	-2.26	25.06	16.37
High Speed Diesel Oil	4.67	153.6	0.00	0.00	6.52	6.22	-0.15	14.71	13.92