India's WPI inflation drops to 0.85% in April 2025

The month-over-month change in WPI for the month of April 2025 stood at -0.19 per cent as compared to March 2025.

“Positive rate of inflation in April 2025 is primarily due to increase in prices of manufacture of food products, other manufacturing, chemicals and chemical products, manufacture of other transport equipment and manufacture of machinery and equipment 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 April decreased slightly to 154.2 from 154.5 in the previous month.

The index for manufactured products (weight 64.23 per cent) increased to 144.9 in April 2025 from 144.4 for the month of March 2025. The index for ‘Manufacture of Textiles’ sub-group declined slightly to 136.4 in April from 136.6 in March, while the index for ‘Manufacture of Wearing Apparel’ dropped to 154.1 from 154.5 last month.

The index for primary articles (weight 22.62 per cent) decreased by 0.11 per cent to 184.4 in April 2025 from 184.6 for the month of March 2025, while that for fuel and power (weight 13.15 per cent) decreased by 2.82 per cent to 148.1 in April 2025 from 152.4 for the month of March 2025.

ALCHEMPro News Desk (KD)