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Oct wholesale price inflation rises to over 12%
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SME Times News Bureau | 15 Nov, 2021
Higher prices of primary goods, food items and costly
transport fuel stiffened India's October wholesale inflation on both
sequential and year-on-year basis.
The annual rate of inflation, based on wholesale prices, rose to 12.54 per cent last month from 10.66 per cent in September.
Similarly,
on a YoY basis, the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) data furnished by the
Ministry of Commerce and Industry has risen exponentially over October
2020, when it stood at 1.31 per cent.
"The high rate of inflation
in October is primarily due to the rise in prices of mineral oils,
basic metals, food products, crude petroleum and natural gas, chemicals
and chemical products etc., as compared to the corresponding month of
the previous year," the ministry said in its review of 'Index Numbers of
Wholesale Price in India' for October.
"The month over month change in WPI index for October 2021 (as compared to September 2021) was 2.28 per cent," it said.
As
per the data, the primary articles segment, which has one of the
highest weightage in the WPI, increased at a faster rate of 5.20 per
cent in October as compared to 4.10 per cent reported for September
2021.
In the fuel and power segment, which has a weightage of
13.15 per cent, the rise in inflation was recorded at 37.18 per cent
from 24.81 per cent in September 2021.
However, cost of
manufactured products, which has a weightage of 64.23 per cent,
increased at a faster rate of 12.04 per cent from 11.41 per cent.
Similarly,
the growth rate of WPI food index consisting of food articles from the
primary articles group and food products from the manufactured products
group rose to 3.06 per cent from 1.14 per cent.
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