Wholesale Price Indices for Primary Articles and Fuel & Power in India (Base: 2004-05 = 100) Review for the week ended 29th October, 2011 (07 Kartika, 1933 Saka) .

11-11-2011

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11-November-2011 12:04 IST

Wholesale Price Indices for Primary Articles and Fuel & Power in India (Base: 2004-05 = 100) Review for the week ended 29th October, 2011 (07 Kartika, 1933 Saka)

The WPI for the week ended 29^th October, 2011 in respect of ‘Primary Articles’ and ‘Fuel & Power’ is given below:

PRIMARY ARTICLES (Weight 20.12%)

The index for this major group declined by 0.1 percent to 204.7 (Provisional) from 205.0 (Provisional) for the previous week.

The annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis, stood at 11.43 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 29/10/2011 (over 30/10/2010) as compared to 12.08 percent (Provisional) for the previous week (ended 22/10/2011).

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

The index for ‘Food Articles’ group declined by 0.2 percent to 201.7 (Provisional) from 202.2 (Provisional) for the previous week due to lower prices of fish-inland (3%), bajra (2%) and fruits & vegetables, moong and condiments & spices (1% each). However, the prices of gram, egg, fish-marine, ragi and poultry chicken (2% each) and maize, urad and tea (1% each) moved up.

The index for ‘Non-Food Articles’ group rose by 0.2 percent to 177.5 (Provisional) from 177.2 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of flowers (7%), gaur seed (4%), rape & mustard seed (2%) and sunflower, raw rubber and raw jute (1% each). However, the prices of groundnut seed (3%), coir fibre, linseed, raw silk and niger seed (2% each) and copra, gingelly seed and castor seed (1% each) declined.

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 169.8 (Provisional) and 14.50 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 29/10/2011 (over 30/10/2010).

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-I

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

Week Ending 29^th October, 2011 (Base: 2004-05)
Commodities/Major Groups/Groups/Sub-Groups	Weight	WPI Oct 29, 2011	Latest week over week		Build up from end March		Year on year		52 week Average
Commodities/Major Groups/Groups/Sub-Groups	Weight	WPI Oct 29, 2011	2010-11	2011-12	2010-11	2011-12	2010-11	2011-12	52 week Average
Primary Articles	20.12	204.7	0.44	-0.15	10.26	8.65	16.71	11.43	13.86
Food Articles	14.34	201.7	0.11	-0.25	9.73	12.62	12.68	11.81	10.57
Cereals	3.37	176.4	0.12	0.06	2.23	2.86	3.99	4.07	4.00
Rice	1.79	175.9	-0.06	0.00	3.43	5.46	4.78	4.27	3.60
Wheat	1.12	166.1	0.42	0.18	-1.17	-2.64	1.08	-1.77	-1.13
Pulses	0.72	215.1	-0.31	1.13	-5.14	13.57	-5.14	13.27	-5.83
Vegetables	1.74	230.3	0.16	-2.04	40.86	60.60	-3.79	26.05	15.15
Potato	0.20	152.2	-0.85	-1.30	48.58	41.85	-51.78	0.53	-9.80
Onion	0.18	231.9	0.07	1.35	83.29	37.46	22.66	-19.31	34.79
Fruits	2.11	180.5	0.00	0.06	11.22	-3.11	17.87	11.70	21.25
Milk	3.24	197.2	-0.06	0.00	3.46	13.33	20.49	11.79	10.49
Egg, Meat & Fish	2.41	222.1	0.46	-0.09	12.57	12.51	29.69	12.74	12.21
Non-Food Articles	4.26	177.5	0.18	0.17	10.76	-7.41	24.29	6.41	21.39
Fibres	0.88	212.3	-0.21	0.09	28.11	-26.03	40.91	9.10	49.26
Oil Seeds	1.78	153.3	0.14	-0.71	2.28	1.59	4.98	10.29	9.90
Minerals	1.52	309.2	3.03	0.00	13.13	15.98	32.73	18.02	23.02
Fuel & Power	14.91	169.8	0.00	0.00	5.85	7.54	10.67	14.50	12.52
Liquefied Petroleum Gas	0.91	147.3	0.00	0.00	14.99	14.27	15.30	14.27	13.98
Petrol	1.09	181.1	0.00	0.00	10.71	14.19	17.56	27.00	24.99
High Speed Diesel Oil	4.67	167.8	0.00	0.00	6.15	9.24	14.64	9.32	9.68

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 (%)	29-Oct-11	22-Oct-11	15-Oct-11	08-Oct-11	01-Oct-11	24-Sep-11
Primary Articles	20.12	11.43	12.08	11.75	11.18	10.60	10.84
Food Articles	14.34	11.81	12.21	11.43	10.60	9.32	9.41
Cereals	3.37	4.07	4.13	4.62	4.73	5.41	4.57
Rice	1.79	4.27	4.21	4.26	4.42	5.86	4.13
Wheat	1.12	-1.77	-1.54	-0.95	-0.18	-0.24	-1.01
Pulses	0.72	13.27	11.65	9.06	7.42	6.87	7.54
Vegetables	1.74	26.05	28.89	25.00	17.59	13.01	14.88
Potato	0.20	0.53	0.98	-0.45	1.73	3.79	9.34
Onion	0.18	-19.31	-20.33	-18.93	-11.27	-10.15	10.58
Fruits	2.11	11.70	11.63	11.96	12.39	12.19	11.72
Milk	3.24	11.79	11.73	10.85	10.80	10.35	10.35
Egg, Meat & Fish	2.41	12.74	13.36	12.82	14.10	9.92	10.33
Non-Food Articles	4.26	6.41	6.43	7.67	8.51	9.59	10.77
Fibres	0.88	9.10	8.77	11.33	12.77	14.32	18.13
Oil Seeds	1.78	10.29	11.24	8.64	8.63	12.71	12.19
Minerals	1.52	18.02	21.59	21.59	19.72	21.05	21.05
Fuel & Power	14.91	14.50	14.50	14.70	15.17	15.10	14.69
Liquefied Petroleum Gas	0.92	14.27	14.27	14.27	14.27	14.27	14.27
Petrol	1.09	27.00	27.00	27.00	29.17	29.17	29.17
High Speed Diesel Oil	4.67	9.32	9.32	9.32	9.32	9.32	9.32