Wholesale Price Indices for Primary Articles and Fuel & Power in India(Base: 2004-05 = 100) Review for the week ended 23rd April, 2011 (03 Vaisakha, 1933 Saka)

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Ministry of Commerce & Industry

05-May-2011 11:48 IST

Wholesale Price Indices for Primary Articles and Fuel & Power in India (Base: 2004-05 = 100) Review for the week ended 23rd April, 2011 (03 Vaisakha, 1933 Saka)

The WPI for the week ended 23^rd April, 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 0.8 percent to 192.6 (Provisional) from 191.1 (Provisional) for the previous week.

The annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis, stood at 12.11 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 23/04/2011 (over 24/04/2010) as compared to 12.08 percent (Provisional) for the previous week (ended 16/04/2011).

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

The index for 'Food Articles' group rose by 1.0 percent to 184.5 (Provisional) from 182.6 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of fruits & vegetables (4%), barley (3%), jowar (2%) and bajra, urad, ragi, condiments & spices and fish-marine (1% each). However, the prices of gram, masur and arhar (1% each) declined.

The index for 'Non-Food Articles' group rose by 0.4 percent to 193.3 (Provisional) from 192.5 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of flowers and mesta (6% each), gingelly seed (sesamum) (4%), fodder (2%) and castor seed, raw jute, raw silk, groundnut seed and soyabean (1% each). However, the prices of sunflower and gaur seed (3% each) and coir fibre (2%) declined.

FUEL & POWER (Weight 14.91%)

The index for this major group remained unchanged at its previous week's level of 160.3 (Provisional).

The annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis, stood at 13.53 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 23/04/2011 (over 24/04/2010) as compared to 13.53 percent (Provisional) for the previous week (ended 16/04/2011).

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 23^rd April, 2011 (Base: 2004-05)
Commodities/Major Groups/Groups/Sub-Groups	Weight	WPI Apr. 23, 2011	Latest week over week		Build up from end March		Year on year		52 week Average
Commodities/Major Groups/Groups/Sub-Groups	Weight	WPI Apr. 23, 2011	2010-11	2011-12	2010-11	2011-12	2010-11	2011-12	52 week Average
Primary Articles	20.12	192.6	0.76	0.78	3.12	2.34	21.67	12.11	17.02
Food Articles	14.34	184.5	1.25	1.04	3.41	2.79	20.91	8.53	14.80
Cereals	3.37	172.4	0.24	0.17	-0.42	0.35	7.35	4.42	5.01
Rice	1.79	167.0	0.12	0.12	0.31	0.30	7.77	2.08	5.44
Wheat	1.12	168.4	0.36	-0.06	-1.64	-1.86	7.54	0.06	2.41
Pulses	0.72	189.1	0.34	-0.63	2.00	-0.16	23.68	-7.39	1.14
Vegetables	1.74	147.3	-0.56	3.08	9.79	1.94	4.02	3.44	12.99
Potato	0.20	112.6	0.72	2.64	10.21	4.94	-30.21	0.27	-35.46
Onion	0.18	162.3	-3.65	0.81	-10.84	-4.59	-18.77	16.09	30.03
Fruits	2.11	214.7	0.43	3.77	11.36	17.84	23.23	32.69	20.33
Milk	3.24	179.3	0.00	0.06	0.00	1.24	27.33	5.16	18.49
Egg, Meat & Fish	2.41	192.6	6.88	0.21	4.69	-2.43	44.48	5.13	23.55
Non-Food Articles	4.26	193.3	-0.66	0.42	0.40	0.62	17.57	27.84	22.80
Fibres	0.88	284.5	-0.20	0.14	0.92	0.21	19.30	85.58	46.13
Oil Seeds	1.78	152.6	-0.50	0.39	2.06	1.19	5.80	10.02	4.86
Minerals	1.52	267.0	0.00	0.00	6.09	3.01	34.48	8.67	22.16
Fuel & Power	14.91	160.3	0.00	0.00	0.79	1.14	13.41	13.53	12.31
Liquefied Petroleum Gas	0.91	128.9	0.00	0.00	3.30	0.00	3.76	11.31	13.12
Petrol	1.09	158.6	0.00	0.00	1.09	0.00	18.04	21.81	20.10
High Speed Diesel Oil	4.67	153.6	0.00	0.00	0.69	0.00	15.83	5.49	13.32

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 (%)	23-Apr-11	16-Apr-11	09-Apr-11	02-Apr-11	26-Mar-11	19-Mar-11
Primary Articles	20.12	12.11	12.08	11.96	11.40	12.97	12.98
Food Articles	14.34	8.53	8.76	8.74	8.28	9.18	9.50
Cereals	3.37	4.42	4.49	4.48	3.49	3.62	3.96
Rice	1.79	2.08	2.08	2.08	2.20	2.08	2.94
Wheat	1.12	0.06	0.48	1.31	-1.05	0.29	0.00
Pulses	0.72	-7.39	-6.49	-5.67	-4.76	-5.39	-4.40
Vegetables	1.74	3.44	-0.21	1.53	5.41	11.41	5.52
Potato	0.20	0.27	-1.61	1.21	-2.73	5.30	8.39
Onion	0.18	16.09	10.96	8.28	7.74	8.48	6.23
Fruits	2.11	32.69	28.43	25.15	24.14	25.40	24.67
Milk	3.24	5.16	5.10	4.05	4.05	3.87	5.79
Egg, Meat & Fish	2.41	5.13	12.14	14.96	11.02	12.80	15.34
Non-Food Articles	4.26	27.84	26.48	27.69	26.77	27.56	26.18
Fibres	0.88	85.58	84.96	86.83	86.74	86.90	87.54
Oil Seeds	1.78	10.02	9.04	9.50	10.64	10.96	11.71
Minerals	1.52	8.67	8.67	5.49	5.49	11.92	12.35
Fuel & Power	14.91	13.53	13.53	13.05	12.97	13.13	13.13
Liquefied Petroleum Gas	0.92	11.31	11.31	11.31	11.31	14.99	14.99
Petrol	1.09	21.81	21.81	21.81	21.81	23.14	23.14
High Speed Diesel Oil	4.67	5.49	5.49	5.49	5.49	6.22	6.22