Dear Comrades,
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 2013 and also final indices
for December 2012 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
2013 for rural, urban and combined are given in Annex I. The General Indices
for rural, urban and combined are 127.4, 124.9 and 126.3 respectively.
Provisional annual inflation rate based on all India general CPI
(Combined) for January 2013 on point to point basis (January 2013 over
January 2012) is 10.79% as compared to 10.56% (final) for the previous
month of December 2012. The corresponding provisional inflation rates for rural
and urban areas for January 2013 are 10.88% and 10.73% respectively. Inflation
rates (final) for rural and urban areas for December 2012 are 10.74% and 10.42%
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.
AD/DB (Release ID :92164) PIB
