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 December 2012
and also final indices for November 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 December 2012 for rural, urban and combined are given in Annex
I. The General Indices for rural, urban and combined are 126.8, 124.0 and 125.6
respectively.
Provisional annual inflation rate based on all India
general CPI (Combined) for December 2012 on point to point basis (December 2012
over December 2011) is 10.56% as compared to 9.90% (final) for the previous
month of November 2012. The corresponding provisional inflation rates for rural
and urban areas for December 2012 are 10.74% and 10.42% respectively. Inflation
rates (final) for rural and urban areas for November 2012 are 9.97% and 9.69%
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 :91544) PIB
