The Office of Economic Adviser, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade is releasing Wholesale price Index (WPI) for the month of April, 2020.
In view of the limited transactions of products in the wholesale market in the month of April, 2020, due to spread of Covid-19 pandemic, it has been decided to release the Price Movement of selected Sub-groups/Groups of WPI, following the principles of adequacy. All Commodities WPI could not be computed for April-2020 due to non- availability of manufactured product group index.
The movement of the index and WPI based rate of inflation for the major commodity groups is summarized below:-
WPI based Indices and Annual Rate of Inflation (%)*
All Commodities/Major Groups
Weight (%)
Feb-20 (F)
Mar-20 (P)
Apr-20 (P)
Index
Inflation
Index
Inflation
Index
Inflation
All Commodities
100.00
122.2
2.26
121.1
1.00
–
–
I. Primary Articles
22.60
142.8
6.49
139.5
3.72
138.2
-0.79
II. Fuel & Power
13.20
103.6
3.08
100.7
-1.76
92.4
-10.12
III. Manufactured Products
64.20
118.8
0.51
118.7
0.34
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–
WPI Food Index
24.40
148.1
7.24
146.1
5.49
146.6
3.60