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Business EconomyPosted at: Apr 30 2021 7:17PM


All India consumer price index up by 0.6 points

Shimla, Apr 30 (UNI) All India consumer price index for industrial workers for March, 2021 increased by 0.6 points to stand at 119.6.
It roze by 0.50 per cent on a monthly basis.
The index witnessed a decline of 0.61 per cent on a year on year basis.
The maximum upward pressure in current index came from fuel and light group, which contributed 0.40 percentage points to the total change.
It was further supplemented by Miscellaneous group, which contributed 0.15 percentage points to the total rise.
At the item level, Cooking Gas, Petrol, Poultry Chicken, Edible Oils, Apple, Orange, Tea Leaf, Served & Processed Packaged Food, etc. are responsible for the rise in index.
However, this increase was mostly checked by vegetables putting downward pressure on the index.
At the centre level, Jamshedpur and Sangrur recorded maximum increase of 3.0 points each. Among others, four centres observed an increase between 2 to 2.9 points, 22 centres between 1 to 1.9 points and 45 centres between 0 to 0.9 points.
On the contrary, Doom-Dooma Tinsukia recorded a maximum decrease of 3.2 points.
Among others, two centres observed a decline between 2.0 to 2.9 points, another two centres between 1 to 1.9 points and remaining 10 centres between 0 to 0.9 points.
Year-on-year inflation for the month stood at 5.64 per cent compared to 4.48 per cent for the previous month and 5.50 per cent during the corresponding month of the previous year.
Similarly, Food inflation stood at 5.36 per cent against 4.64 per cent of the previous month and 6.67 per cent during the corresponding month a year ago.
The Labour Bureau, an attached office of the Ministry of Labour & Employment, has been compiling Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers every month on the basis of retail prices collected from 317 markets spread over 88 industrially significant centers of the country.
The index is compiled for 88 centers at an all-lndia level and is released on the last working day of succeeding month.

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