Wholesale Price Indices for Primary Articles and Fuel & Power in India (Base: 2004-05 = 100) Review for the week ended 9th July, 2011 (18 Asadha, 1933 Saka).

21-7-2011

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21-July-2011 12:20 IST

Wholesale Price Indices for Primary Articles and Fuel & Power in India (Base: 2004-05 = 100) Review for the week ended 9th July, 2011 (18 Asadha, 1933 Saka)

The WPI for the week ended 9^th July, 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 197.7 (Provisional) from 197.6 (Provisional) for the previous week.

The annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis, stood at 11.13 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 09/07/2011 (over 10/07/2010) as compared to 11.58 percent (Provisional) for the previous week (ended 02/07/2011).

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

The index for ‘Food Articles’ group remained unchanged at its previous week’s level of 191.7 (Provisional). The items for which the index showed increase are ragi (12%), fruits & vegetables (2%), barley, gram, arhar, masur, poultry chicken and tea (1% each). However the index for fish marine (6%), maize (3%), fish inland (2%) and jowar (1%) declined during the week.

The index for 'Non-Food Articles' group rose by 0.1 percent to 175.9 (Provisional) from 175.8 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of niger seed (20%), gingelly seed and gaur seed (4%), raw rubber, fodder and raw jute (2% each) and flowers and rape & mustard seed (1% each). However, the prices of groundnut seed and soyabean (2% each) and cotton seed, sunflower, mesta, raw cotton, raw silk and castor seed (1% each) declined.

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 165.6 (Provisional) and 11.89 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 09/07/2011 (over 10/07/2010).

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

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Annexure-I

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

Week Ending 9^th July, 2011 (Base: 2004-05)
Commodities/Major Groups/Groups/Sub-Groups	Weight	WPI July 09, 2011	Latest week over week		Build up from end March		Year on year		52 week Average
Commodities/Major Groups/Groups/Sub-Groups	Weight	WPI July 09, 2011	2010-11	2011-12	2010-11	2011-12	2010-11	2011-12	52 week Average
Primary Articles	20.12	197.7	0.45	0.05	6.78	4.94	20.04	11.13	15.62
Food Articles	14.34	191.7	0.68	0.00	8.39	7.04	19.52	7.58	12.36
Cereals	3.37	175.6	0.60	0.00	1.09	2.39	8.34	4.77	4.52
Rice	1.79	168.8	1.15	0.06	2.15	1.20	9.89	1.32	4.17
Wheat	1.12	171.0	-1.24	0.29	-2.40	0.23	5.76	2.40	1.11
Pulses	0.72	190.3	-0.39	0.48	2.95	0.48	15.66	-7.67	-4.88
Vegetables	1.74	183.8	1.50	3.55	35.85	28.17	0.74	4.31	10.52
Potato	0.20	139.0	0.45	7.42	30.91	29.54	-42.87	4.20	-30.62
Onion	0.18	196.4	8.17	-0.96	4.66	16.42	-5.64	19.68	34.82
Fruits	2.11	195.3	-2.03	-0.05	16.04	4.83	29.20	15.84	22.69
Milk	3.24	193.5	1.63	0.16	2.46	11.21	26.14	10.76	14.49
Egg, Meat & Fish	2.41	201.8	1.03	-2.56	6.80	2.23	36.92	7.97	17.02
Non-Food Articles	4.26	175.9	-0.20	0.06	1.13	-8.24	15.82	15.50	23.71
Fibres	0.88	211.1	-0.19	-0.61	4.21	-26.45	17.61	33.35	53.18
Oil Seeds	1.78	152.5	-0.73	-0.59	0.59	1.06	2.24	11.56	7.07
Minerals	1.52	314.7	-0.04	0.00	6.26	18.04	31.60	27.87	24.02
Fuel & Power	14.91	165.6	0.00	0.00	5.64	4.88	13.24	11.89	11.93
Liquefied Petroleum Gas	0.91	147.7	0.00	0.00	14.99	14.58	15.30	14.58	14.21
Petrol	1.09	172.4	0.00	0.00	8.62	8.70	15.33	23.23	22.09
High Speed Diesel Oil	4.67	167.8	0.00	0.00	6.15	9.24	14.64	9.32	11.27

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 (%)	9-July-11	2-July-11	25-June-11	18-June-11	11-June-11	04-June-11
Primary Articles	20.12	11.13	11.58	11.56	11.84	12.62	12.86
Food Articles	14.34	7.58	8.31	7.61	7.78	9.13	8.96
Cereals	3.37	4.77	5.40	4.26	4.76	4.32	5.25
Rice	1.79	1.32	2.43	1.52	2.01	1.82	2.32
Wheat	1.12	2.40	0.83	0.42	0.24	-1.00	0.18
Pulses	0.72	-7.67	-8.46	-9.01	-9.50	-10.34	-10.12
Vegetables	1.74	4.31	2.25	-8.74	-10.08	-9.27	-1.39
Potato	0.20	4.20	-2.56	-2.13	-2.39	0.71	1.14
Onion	0.18	19.68	30.72	21.24	16.08	11.89	12.17
Fruits	2.11	15.84	13.54	22.75	24.76	28.66	29.92
Milk	3.24	10.76	12.39	12.10	12.10	15.30	10.59
Egg, Meat & Fish	2.41	7.97	11.95	10.12	10.32	10.56	7.31
Non-Food Articles	4.26	15.50	15.20	17.69	17.91	18.43	20.20
Fibres	0.88	33.35	33.92	38.05	39.59	43.77	53.54
Oil Seeds	1.78	11.56	11.40	14.31	13.73	12.91	11.94
Minerals	1.52	27.87	27.82	27.87	28.51	25.90	25.90
Fuel & Power	14.91	11.89	11.89	12.67	12.98	12.84	12.84
Liquefied Petroleum Gas	0.92	14.58	14.58	14.58	11.31	11.31	11.31
Petrol	1.09	23.23	23.23	23.23	33.23	33.23	33.23
High Speed Diesel Oil	4.67	9.32	9.32	9.25	5.64	5.64	5.64