Wholesale Price Indices for Primary Articles and Fuel & Power in India (Base: 2004-05 = 100) Review for the week ended 23rd July, 2011 (01 Shravana, 1933 Saka).

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Government of India
Ministry of Commerce & Industry

04-August-2011 12:15 IST

Wholesale Price Indices for Primary Articles and Fuel & Power in India (Base: 2004-05 = 100) Review for the week ended 23rd July, 2011 (01 Shravana, 1933 Saka)

The WPI for the week ended 23^rd July, 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 0.6 percent to 196.9 (Provisional) from 198.0 (Provisional) for the previous week.

The annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis, stood at 10.99 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 23/07/2011 (over 24/07/2010) as compared to 10.49 percent (Provisional) for the previous week (ended 16/07/2011). 

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

The index for 'Food Articles' group declined by 0.6 percent to 192.2 (Provisional) from 193.3  (Provisional) for the previous week due to lower prices of fish-marine, poultry chicken and urad (3% each), fruits & vegetables (2%) and egg, condiments & spices, arhar and pork (1% each).  However, the prices of fish-inland, moong and jowar (2% each) and gram, maize, tea, barley and bajra (1% each) moved up

The index for 'Non-Food Articles' group declined by 0.9 percent to 174.9 (Provisional) from 176.4  (Provisional) for the previous week due to lower prices of flowers (18%), raw cotton, niger seed and gingelly seed (3% each) and soyabean (1%).  However, the prices of gaur seed (11%), raw silk (6 %), copra (3%), castor seed and cotton seed (2% each) and groundnut seed, rape & mustard seed and       sunflower (1% each) moved up.

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 12.12 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 23/07/2011 (over 24/07/2010).

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.

Next date of press release: 11/08/2011 for the week ending 30/07/2011

Office of the Economic Adviser, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, New Delhi, 04/08/2011

Annexure-I

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