The official Wholesale Price Index for 'All Commodities' (Base: 1993-94 = 100) for the week ended 26th August 2006 rose by 0.1 percent to 205.3 (Provisional) from 205.1 (Provisional) for the previous week.
The annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis, stood at 5.01 percent (Provisional) for the week ended 26/08/2006 (over 27/08/2005) as compared to 4.91 percent (Provisional) for the previous week. The annual rate of inflation stood at 3.33 percent as on 27/08/2005 i.e. a year ago.
The movement of the index for the various commodity groups is summarized below:-
1. PRIMARY ARTICLES (Weight 22.02 percent)
The index for this major group rose by 0.3 percent to 205.7 (Provisional) from 205.0 (Provisional) for the previous week. The groups and items for which the index showed variations during the week are as follows: -
The index for 'Food Articles' group rose by 0.4 percent to 207.0 (Provisional) from 206.2 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of bajra and gram (4 percent each), maize and wheat (3 percent each), arhar (2 percent) and fruits & vegetables and jowar (1 percent each). However, the prices of fish-inland (6 percent), moong (2 percent) and urad (1 percent) declined.
The index for 'Non-Food Articles' group rose by 0.4 percent to 186.7 (Provisional) from 185.9 (Provisional) for the previous week due to higher prices of niger seed (9 percent), raw silk (3 percent), raw cotton (2 percent) and castor seed, cotton seed, linseed, groundnut seed, gingelly seed and copra (1 percent each). However, the prices of raw rubber (2 percent) declined.
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