Retail inflation for industrial workers touches 6.6 in January
New Delhi, Mar 1 (IBNS): Retail inflation for industrial workers touched 6.6 percent in January this year, government data released on Friday said.
"The year-on-year inflation based on CPI-IW stood at 6.60 percent for January, 2019 as compared to 5.24 percent for the previous month and 5.11 percent during the corresponding month of the previous year. Similarly, the Food inflation stood at (+) 0.97 percent against (-) 0.96 percent of the previous month and 3.36 percent during the corresponding month of the previous year," read a government statement.
At centre level Nagpur reported the maximum increase of 21 points followed by Nasik (17 points), Amritsar, Quilon, Jharia (13 points each) and Jaipur (12 points). Among others, 11 points increase was observed in 3 centres, 10 points in 7 centres, 9 points in 3 centres, 8 points in 5 centres, 6 points in 9 centres, 5 points in 6 centres, 4 points in 7 centres, 3 points in 7 centres, 2 points in 7 centres and 1 point in 6 centres. On the contrary, Darjeeling recorded a maximum decrease of 4 points followed by Siliguri (3 points). Among others, 2 points decrease was observed in 4 centres and 1 point in 2 centres. Rest of the 4 centres' indices remained stationary.
The indices of 35 centres are above All-India Index and 42 centres' indices are below national average. The index of Rourkela centre remained at par with All-India Index.
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