Wholesale Price Indices for Primary Articles and Fuel & Power in India (Base: 2004-05 = 100) Review for the week ended 11th June, 2011 (21 Jyaistha, 1933 Saka)

23-6-2011

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Ministry of Commerce & Industry

23-June-2011 11:52 IST

Wholesale Price Indices for Primary Articles and Fuel & Power in India (Base: 2004-05 = 100) Review for the week ended 11th June, 2011 (21 Jyaistha, 1933 Saka)

The WPI for the week ended 11^th June, 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 198.1 (Provisional) from 196.6 (Provisional) for the previous week.

The annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis, stood at 12.62 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 11/06/2011 (over 12/06/2010) as compared to 12.86 percent (Provisional) for the previous week (ended 04/06/2011).

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

The index for ‘Food Articles’ group rose by 1.5 percent to 191.3 (Provisional) from 188.4 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of fish-marine (5%), milk (4%), tea and poultry chicken (3% each), jowar and egg (2% each) and moong, fish-inland and fruits & vegetables (1% each). However, the prices of bajra and urad (5% each) and ragi, barley, condiments & spices and pork (1% each) declined.

The index for ‘Non-Food Articles’ group declined by 1.5 percent to 181.2 (Provisional) from 183.9 (Provisional) for the previous week due to lower prices of raw cotton (9%), mesta and sunflower (4% each), raw jute (3%) and castor seed, linseed and fodder (1% each). However, the prices of raw silk (7%), groundnut seed (5%), gaur seed (2%) and cotton seed and copra (1% each) moved up.

FUEL & POWER (Weight 14.91%)

The index and annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis for this major group remained unchanged at their previous week's level of 159.9 (Provisional) and 12.84 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 11/06/2011 (over 12/06/2010).

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.

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Annexure-

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

Week Ending 11^th June, 2011 (Base: 2004-05)
Commodities/Major Groups/Groups/Sub-Groups	Weight	WPI June 11, 2011	Latest week over week		Build up from end March		Year on year		52 week Average
Commodities/Major Groups/Groups/Sub-Groups	Weight	WPI June 11, 2011	2010-11	2011-12	2010-11	2011-12	2010-11	2011-12	52 week Average
Primary Articles	20.12	198.1	0.98	0.76	5.58	5.15	21.48	12.62	16.08
Food Articles	14.34	191.3	1.39	1.54	6.63	6.81	22.93	9.13	13.23
Cereals	3.37	173.9	0.66	-0.23	0.54	1.40	7.69	4.32	4.70
Rice	1.79	167.7	0.49	0.00	0.98	0.54	8.64	1.82	4.64
Wheat	1.12	167.8	0.83	-0.36	-0.94	-1.64	7.21	-1.00	1.52
Pulses	0.72	185.6	-0.29	-0.54	3.40	-2.01	24.18	-10.34	-2.94
Vegetables	1.74	161.4	12.24	3.26	37.16	12.55	18.13	-9.27	11.39
Potato	0.20	127.1	2.60	2.17	23.85	18.45	-35.22	0.71	-33.06
Onion	0.18	172.2	8.23	7.96	-1.85	2.07	-12.95	11.89	33.06
Fruits	2.11	205.6	0.25	-0.72	9.98	10.36	26.12	28.66	23.29
Milk	3.24	198.2	0.00	4.26	0.82	13.91	28.38	15.30	15.52
Egg, Meat & Fish	2.41	203.1	-0.54	2.47	4.97	2.89	42.62	10.56	18.75
Non-Food Articles	4.26	181.2	0.00	-1.47	1.59	-5.48	15.82	18.43	23.85
Fibres	0.88	226.0	-0.76	-7.07	3.49	-21.25	18.28	43.77	52.32
Oil Seeds	1.78	155.7	0.36	1.24	1.47	3.18	2.00	12.91	6.23
Minerals	1.52	309.6	0.00	0.00	6.17	16.13	22.10	25.90	22.11
Fuel & Power	14.91	159.9	0.00	0.00	1.14	1.27	13.00	12.84	12.06
Liquefied Petroleum Gas	0.91	128.9	0.00	0.00	3.30	0.00	3.76	11.31	14.11
Petrol	1.09	172.4	0.00	0.00	0.47	8.70	17.32	33.23	21.54
High Speed Diesel Oil	4.67	153.6	0.00	0.00	0.55	0.00	15.67	5.64	11.91

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 (%)	11-June-11	04-June-11	28-May-11	21-May-11	14-May-11	07-May-11
Primary Articles	20.12	12.62	12.86	11.52	10.87	11.60	10.94
Food Articles	14.34	9.13	8.96	9.01	8.06	8.55	7.47
Cereals	3.37	4.32	5.25	5.77	4.78	5.03	4.79
Rice	1.79	1.82	2.32	2.69	2.51	2.63	2.51
Wheat	1.12	-1.00	0.18	0.90	-0.77	-0.30	-0.06
Pulses	0.72	-10.34	-10.12	-9.49	-9.22	-9.49	-8.87
Vegetables	1.74	-9.27	-1.39	-0.20	-1.06	-1.46	-3.61
Potato	0.20	0.71	1.14	-2.87	-2.15	0.17	1.99
Onion	0.18	11.89	12.17	14.02	12.32	8.32	10.53
Fruits	2.11	28.66	29.92	30.78	30.51	32.37	30.58
Milk	3.24	15.30	10.59	8.49	7.04	5.53	4.65
Egg, Meat & Fish	2.41	10.56	7.31	6.99	5.50	8.26	5.67
Non-Food Articles	4.26	18.43	20.20	20.97	21.31	23.22	23.82
Fibres	0.88	43.77	53.54	56.56	55.82	60.43	61.94
Oil Seeds	1.78	12.91	11.94	13.46	13.23	11.58	11.38
Minerals	1.52	25.90	25.90	12.11	11.78	11.78	11.95
Fuel & Power	14.91	12.84	12.84	12.46	12.54	12.11	12.11
Liquefied Petroleum Gas	0.92	11.31	11.31	11.31	11.31	11.31	11.31
Petrol	1.09	33.23	33.23	33.23	32.41	21.81	21.81
High Speed Diesel Oil	4.67	5.64	5.64	5.64	5.49	5.49	5.49