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Wholesale Price Indices for Primary Articles and Fuel. Power, Light & Lubricants in India Base: 1993-94 = 100
Review for the week ended 12th June, 2010 22 Jyaistha, 1932 Saka
Date : 24 Jun 2010
Location : New Delhi
The WPI for the week ended 12th June, 2010 in respect of ‘Primary Articles’ and ‘Fuel, Power, Light & Lubricants’ is given below:
PRIMARY ARTICLES (Weight 22.02%)
The index for this major group rose by 0.6 percent to 301.3 (Provisional) from 299.5 (Provisional) for the previous week.
The annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis, stood at 17.60 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 12/06/2010 (over 13/06/2009) as compared to 16.86 percent (Provisional) for the previous week (ended 05/06/2010) and 5.61 percent during the corresponding week (ended 13/06/2009) of the previous year.
The groups and items for which the index showed variations during the week are as follows:-
The index for 'Food Articles' group rose by 0.7 percent to 295.3 (Provisional) from 293.2 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of fruits & vegetables (4%), condiments & spices (3%) and urad, moong and tea (1% each). However, the prices of mutton (2%) and fish-marine and arhar (1% each) declined.
The index for 'Non-Food Articles' group rose by 0.3 percent to 286.7 (Provisional) from 285.8 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of gingelly seed, raw silk and castor seed (2% each) and sunflower, copra, linseed, groundnut seed and logs & timber (1% each).
3. FUEL, POWER, LIGHT & LUBRICANTS (Weight 14.23%)
The index and rate of inflation calculated on point to point basis for this major group remained unchanged at their previous week’s (05/06/2010) level of 370.2 (Provisional) and 13.18 percent (Provisional). It was (-) 12.70 percent during the corresponding week (ended 13/06/2009) of the previous year.
Build up inflation over the week, financial year end and over the year is given in Annexure-1 for some important items.
Next date of press release: 01/07/2010 for the week ending 19/06/2010
Office of Economic Adviser, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, New Delhi, 24/06/2010
This press release is available at our home page http://eaindustry.nic.in
Annexure-I
Wholesale Price Index and Rates of Inflation
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Week Ending 12th June, 2010 |
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Commodities/Major Groups/Groups/Sub-Groups |
Weight |
WPI June 12, 2010 |
Latest week over week |
Build up from end March |
Year on year |
52 week Average
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2009-10 |
2010-11 |
2009-10 |
2010-11 |
2009-10 |
2010-11 |
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Primary Articles |
22.03 |
301.3 |
-0.04 |
0.60 |
2.89 |
2.17 |
5.61 |
17.60 |
13.04 |
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Food Articles |
15.40 |
295.3 |
0.04 |
0.72 |
3.48 |
2.57 |
9.26 |
16.90 |
16.19 |
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Cereals |
4.41 |
265.1 |
0.28 |
0.00 |
3.19 |
-2.21 |
14.12 |
5.11 |
12.21 |
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Rice |
2.45 |
250.9 |
0.17 |
-0.12 |
2.12 |
-0.40 |
17.61 |
6.45 |
12.64 |
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Wheat |
1.38 |
259.9 |
-0.04 |
0.19 |
2.05 |
-6.21 |
6.63 |
4.21 |
10.38 |
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Pulses |
0.60 |
383.1 |
0.46 |
0.26 |
5.08 |
6.30 |
17.68 |
34.14 |
31.57 |
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Vegetables |
1.46 |
301.6 |
2.52 |
8.06 |
48.41 |
52.55 |
25.97 |
4.32 |
13.33 |
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Potatoes |
0.26 |
203.6 |
4.87 |
1.60 |
50.56 |
15.22 |
57.84 |
-36.99 |
41.52 |
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Onions |
0.09 |
190.3 |
4.43 |
-1.40 |
-10.15 |
-14.39 |
45.75 |
-22.42 |
10.57 |
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Fruits |
1.46 |
274.8 |
-0.04 |
-0.15 |
-16.64 |
-18.19 |
-0.12 |
13.55 |
9.73 |
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Milk |
4.37 |
285.6 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.49 |
4.80 |
21.12 |
14.21 |
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Non-Food Articles |
6.14 |
286.7 |
-0.21 |
0.31 |
6.02 |
1.74 |
0.84 |
18.86 |
8.00 |
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Fibres |
1.52 |
247.8 |
-1.29 |
0.00 |
4.02 |
3.64 |
-5.44 |
19.77 |
3.94 |
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Oil Seeds |
2.67 |
265.1 |
0.04 |
0.72 |
6.40 |
1.88 |
0.87 |
4.29 |
4.20 |
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Minerals |
0.48 |
674.9 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
-16.83 |
-1.33 |
-13.37 |
20.15 |
-1.73 |
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Fuel, Power, Light & Lubricants |
14.23 |
370.2 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
1.90 |
2.32 |
-12.70 |
13.18 |
1.74 |
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Liquefied Petroleum Gas |
1.84 |
365.5 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
3.25 |
-12.53 |
3.72 |
-4.06 |
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Petrol |
0.89 |
264.7 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
1.07 |
-19.90 |
18.06 |
-1.22 |
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High Speed Diesel Oil |
2.02 |
523.7 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.71 |
-11.59 |
15.81 |
1.83 |
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