Wholesale Price Indices for Primary Articles and Fuel & Power in India (Base: 2004-05 = 100) Review for the week ended 25th December, 2010

6-1-2011

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The WPI for the week ended 25^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 2.0 percent to 193.4 (Provisional) from 189.7 (Provisional) for the previous week.

The annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis, stood at 20.20 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 25/12/2010 (over 26/12/2009) as compared to 17.24 percent (Provisional) for the previous week (ended 18/12/2010).

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

The index for 'Food Articles' group rose by 2.5 percent to 192.5 (Provisional) from 187.8 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of fruits & vegetables (7%), fish-inland, mutton, urad, milk and egg (2%) and beef & buffalo meat, condiments & spices, poultry chicken and gram (1% each). However, the prices of fish-marine (2%) and masur and bajra (1% each) declined.

The index for 'Non-Food Articles' group declined by 0.5 percent to 172.2 (Provisional) from 173.0 (Provisional) for the previous week due to lower prices of flower (6%), groundnut seed (2%) and castor seed and raw silk (1% each). However, the prices of raw rubber (2%) and linseed (1%) moved up.

The index for 'Minerals' group rose by 3.0 percent to 261.3 (Provisional) from 253.6 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of gypsum (28%), zinc concentrate (13%), iron ore (9%), limestone (7%) and chromite (3%). However, the prices of bauxite (25%), sillimanite (14%) and steatite (1%) declined.

FUEL & POWER (Weight 14.91%)

The index for this major group remained unchanged at its previous week's level of 150.7 (Provisional).

The annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis, has also remained unchanged at its previous week's level of 11.63 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 25/12/2010 (over 26/12/2009).

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: 13/01/2011 for the week ending 01/01/2011

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

Week Ending 25^th December, 2010 (Base: 2004-05)
Commodities/Major Groups/Groups/Sub-Groups	Weight	WPI Dec. 25,2010	Latest week over week		Build up from end March		Year on year		52 week Average
Commodities/Major Groups/Groups/Sub-Groups	Weight	WPI Dec. 25,2010	2009-10	2010-11	2009-10	2010-11	2009-10	2010-11	52 week Average
Primary Articles	20.12	193.4	-0.56	1.95	18.22	16.09	17.36	20.20	18.77
Food Articles	14.34	192.5	-0.85	2.50	19.90	17.09	19.90	18.32	17.53
Cereals	3.37	169.5	-0.06	0.12	13.15	2.23	16.47	-0.53	7.45
Rice	1.79	166.7	-0.18	0.12	9.63	2.21	12.32	1.03	7.17
Wheat	1.12	171.6	0.00	0.12	20.05	0.29	23.07	-5.40	7.73
Pulses	0.72	189.3	0.14	0.42	33.25	-5.44	32.66	-10.54	12.91
Vegetables	1.74	262.9	-5.43	16.22	41.70	102.70	12.13	58.85	6.79
Potatoes	0.20	169.7	-12.05	-2.36	78.88	66.54	102.93	-15.45	-32.10
Onions	0.18	467.3	-5.78	23.10	37.10	198.02	12.72	82.47	6.39
Fruits	2.11	161.5	-1.10	-2.71	8.99	11.15	10.87	19.99	19.16
Milk	3.24	180.7	0.07	1.63	12.85	5.98	21.37	19.59	24.57
Egg, Meat & Fish	2.41	198.4	0.00	0.40	29.29	13.37	29.39	20.83	31.03
Non-Food Articles	4.26	172.2	0.14	-0.46	11.76	14.34	10.70	22.39	18.23
Fibres	0.88	203.3	0.20	-0.05	18.02	33.84	8.30	35.53	23.05
Oil Seeds	1.78	140.7	-0.22	-0.42	7.09	3.53	7.43	2.40	4.80
Minerals	1.52	261.3	0.00	3.04	19.18	12.82	12.04	30.58	29.00
Fuel & Power	14.91	150.7	0.00	0.00	9.67	7.57	5.06	11.63	11.76
Liquefied Petroleum Gas	0.91	128.9	0.00	0.00	0.45	14.99	-7.20	14.99	8.22
Petrol	1.09	151.7	0.00	0.00	9.97	17.78	-2.26	25.06	15.27
High Speed Diesel Oil	4.67	153.6	0.00	0.00	6.52	6.22	-0.15	14.71	13.33