India's WPI inflation eases to 2.31% in January 2025

The month-over-month change in WPI for the month of January 2025 stood at -0.45 per cent as compared to December 2024.

“Positive rate of inflation in January 2025 is primarily due to increase in prices of manufacture of food products, food articles, other manufacturing, non-food articles and manufacture of textiles etc,” the Office of the Economic Adviser, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, said.

The official WPI for all commodities (Base: 2011-12 = 100) for January decreased slightly to 154.7 from 155.4 in the previous month.

The index for manufactured products (weight 64.23 per cent) increased by 0.14 per cent to 143.2 in January 2025 from 143.0 for the month of December 2024. The index for ‘Manufacture of Textiles’ sub-group remained stable at 136.9 in January, while the index for ‘Manufacture of Wearing Apparel’ decreased very slightly to 154.1 from 154.4 in December.

The index for primary articles (weight 22.62 per cent) decreased by 2.01 per cent to 189.9 in January from 193.8 in December, while that for fuel and power (weight 13.15 per cent) increased by 0.47 per cent to 150.6 in January from 149.9 in December.

ALCHEMPro News Desk (KD)