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The Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation releases Consumer Price Indices (CPI) on base 2010=100 for all-India and States/UTs separately for rural, urban and combined every month with effect from January, 2011.
Provisional indices for the month of January 2012 and also final indices for November, 2011 and December 2011 are being released with this note for all-India and for States/UTs.
All India provisional General (all groups), Group and Sub- Group level CPI numbers of January 2012 for rural, urban and combined are given in Annex I. The General Indices for rural, urban and combined are 115.0, 112.8 and 114.0 respectively.
Provisional annual inflation rate based on all India general CPI (Combined) for January 2012 on point to point basis (January 2012 over January 2011) is 7.65 percent. The corresponding inflation rates for rural and urban areas are 7.38 percent and 8.25 percent respectively. Inflation for specified categories is indicated at Annex II.
State/UT-wise General provisional CPI numbers for rural, urban and combined are at Annex III. State/ UT wise Group level provisional indices are available in the Ministry’s website (www.mospi.gov.in).
Price data are collected from selected towns by the Field Operations Division of NSSO and from selected villages by the Department of Posts. Price data are received through web portals being maintained by the National Informatics Centre.
Annex I.
All India General, Group and Sub-group wise Consumer Price Indices for rural, urban areas and combined (Base: 2010=100).
prov.--- provisional.
Annex II.
Provisional all India annual inflation rates (%) for January 2012.
Annex III
State/UT wise General Consumer Price Indices for rural, urban and combined (Base 2010=100).
Notes: -- indicates the receipt of price schedules is less than 80% of allocated schedules and therefore indices are not compiled.
prov.--- provisional.
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