New Delhi: The annual wholesale price (WPI) index
touched a four-year high of 8.33 per cent for the week
ended August 28 against an inflation rate of 8.17 per
cent registered the previous week.
According
to the data released by the Central Statistical Organisation
yesterday, the year-on-year inflation rose largely due
to a rise in the index for fuel and power, even as the
prices of primary articles went up marginally.
The
index of the primary articles'' group, which has a 22 per
cent weightage in the index, was up by 0.1 per cent to
192.9 points due to a rise in prices of both food and
non-food articles. An 11 per cent hike in the price of
naphtha and four per cent rise in furnace oil prices pushed
up the index for the fuel, power, light and lubricants
group, which has a 14.23 per cent weightage in the WPI
basket, by 0.6 per cent.
Among
the primary articles, which carry a weight of 22.02 per
cent in the WPI basket, the index of the food articles
group was up marginally by 0.1 per cent to 189 points
due to higher prices for eggs (three per cent), fish-inland
and arhar (two per cent each) and urad,
barley and masur (one per cent each).
Prices
dipped in the case of bajra (three per cent), condiments
and spices, maize and fruits and vegetables (one per cent
each). The index of the non-food articles group was up
0.2 per cent to 195.4 points
The
food products group index rose by 0.3 per cent to 175.6
points due to higher prices for rice bran oil, baby food
and gur (two per cent each) and groundnut oil,
salt, imported edible oil, maida, sugar, sunflower oil,
gingelly oil and atta (one per cent each). Prices
dipped for unrefined oil and rape and mustard oil (two
per cent each) and coffee powder, soyabean oil, butter,
ghee, khandsari and cattle feed (one per cent each).
The
index for the textiles group was up 0.1 per cent to 138.8
points due to higher prices for hessian and sacking bags
and hessian cloth (three per cent each) and polyster staple
fibre and polyester yarn (one per cent each).
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