Wholesale Price Indices for Primary Articles and Fuel & Power in India (Base: 2004-05 = 100) Review for the week ended 18th December, 2010 (27 Agarhayana, 1932 Saka)

30-12-2010

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The WPI for the week ended 18^th December, 2010 in respect of 'Primary Articles' and 'Fuel & Power' is given below:

PRIMARY ARTICLES (Weight 20.12%)

The index for this major group rose by 1.0 percent to 189.7 (Provisional) from 187.9 (Provisional) for the previous week.

The annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis, stood at 17.24 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 18/12/2010 (over 19/12/2009) as compared to 15.35 percent (Provisional) for the previous week (ended 11/12/2010).

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

The index for 'FOOD ARTICLES' group rose by 1.1 percent to 187.8 (Provisional) from 185.8 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of poultry chicken (18%), condiments & spices, fruits & vegetables and moong (3% each) and bajra andjowar (1% each). However, the prices of fish-inland (4%), masur and arhar (2% each) and fish-marine and urad (1% each) declined.

The index for 'NON-FOOD ARTICLES' group rose by 0.8 percent to 173.0 (Provisional) from 171.6 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of, raw silk (8%), flowers (6%), raw rubber (4 %) and castor seed and cotton seed (1% each). However, the prices of gingelly seed (sesamum) (2%) and linseed, gaur seed and copra (1% each) declined.

FUEL & POWER (Weight 14.91%)

The index for this major group rose by 0.8 percent to 150.7 (Provisional) from 149.5 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of petrol (6%), aviation turbine fuel (4%), light diesel oil (3%) and naphtha, furnace oil and bitumen (2% each).

he annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis, stood at 11.63 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 18/12/2010 (over 19/12/2009) as compared to 10.74 percent (Provisional) for the previous week (ended 11/12/2010).

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: 06/01/2011 for the week ending 25/12/2010

Annexure-I

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

Week Ending 18^th December, 2010 (Base: 2004-05)
Commodities/Major Groups/Groups/Sub-Groups	Weight	WPI Dec. 18,2010	Latest week over week		Build up from end March		Year on year		52 week Average
Commodities/Major Groups/Groups/Sub-Groups	Weight	WPI Dec. 18,2010	2009-10	2010-11	2009-10	2010-11	2009-10	2010-11	52 week Average
Primary Articles	20.12	189.7	-0.68	0.96	18.88	13.87	18.45	17.24	18.68
Food Articles	14.34	187.8	-0.97	1.08	20.93	14.23	21.29	14.44	17.55
Cereals	3.37	169.3	0.29	-0.06	13.21	2.11	16.78	-0.70	7.77
Rice	1.79	166.5	0.61	-0.06	9.83	2.08	12.91	0.73	7.36
Wheat	1.12	171.4	0.17	-0.23	20.05	0.18	23.15	-5.51	8.32
Pulses	0.72	188.5	-0.19	-0.21	33.06	-5.84	31.73	-10.79	13.82
Vegetables	1.74	226.2	-6.52	4.58	49.83	74.40	19.95	29.26	5.78
Potatoes	0.20	173.8	-13.10	-8.09	103.39	70.56	126.61	-23.84	-31.17
Onions	0.18	379.6	-1.09	3.49	45.50	142.09	20.43	39.66	4.36
Fruits	2.11	166.0	-0.66	0.85	10.20	14.25	12.39	21.97	19.01
Milk	3.24	177.8	0.07	0.00	12.77	4.28	22.07	17.75	24.64
Egg, Meat & Fish	2.41	197.6	-0.06	0.76	29.29	12.91	29.39	20.34	31.21
Non-Food Articles	4.26	173.0	0.21	0.82	11.60	14.87	11.42	23.13	17.92
Fibres	0.88	203.4	0.34	0.69	17.78	33.90	8.48	35.87	22.41
Oil Seeds	1.78	141.3	-0.07	-0.21	7.33	3.97	7.41	2.61	4.90
Minerals	1.52	253.6	0.00	0.00	19.18	9.50	12.04	26.74	28.46
Fuel & Power	14.91	150.7	0.00	0.80	9.67	7.57	5.06	11.63	11.64
Liquefied Petroleum Gas	0.91	128.9	0.00	0.00	0.45	14.99	-7.20	14.99	7.78
Petrol	1.09	151.7	0.00	5.71	9.97	17.78	-2.26	25.06	14.72
High Speed Diesel Oil	4.67	153.6	0.00	0.00	6.52	6.22	-0.15	14.71	13.0