Just in: Food Inflation surges to 9.13% for the week-ended June 11

23 Jun 2011 Evaluate

Food inflation numbers have ricocheted a week after showing some signs of moderation and have added to the pressure on Indian central bank. The inflation numbers remained higher than comfortable levels for a quite a long time now despite the hawkish stances by RBI, which has already raised key policy rates ten times since March last year.

According to the data released by Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the index for Food Articles group rose to 9.13 percent for the week-ended June 11, from 8.96 percent for the previous week due to higher prices of fish-marine (5%), milk (4%), tea and poultry chicken (3% each), jowar and egg (2% each) and moong, fish-inland and fruits & vegetables (1% each).

The index for primary articles group which has the highest weightage of 20.12% in WPI eased to 12.62 percent for the week from 12.86 for the previous week.

The index for 'Non-Food Articles' group eased to 18.43 percent from 20.20 percent for the previous week due to decline in the prices of raw cotton (9%), mesta and sunflower (4% each), raw jute (3%) and castor seed, linseed and fodder (1% each).

The index for Fuel & Power group which carries a weightage of 14.91%, and annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis for this major group remained unchanged at their previous week's level of 159.9 and 12.84 percent for the week ended June 11 against the corresponding day last year.

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