The Labour Bureau, an attached office of the M/o Labour & Employment, has been
compiling Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers every month on the basis of retail
prices collected from 317 markets spread over 88 industrially important centres in the
country. The index is compiled for 88 centres and All-India and is released on the last
working day of succeeding month. The index for the month of May, 2023 is being released
in this press release.
The All-India CPI-IW for May, 2023 increased by 0.5 points and stood at 134.7 (one
hundred thirty four point seven). On l-month percentage change, it increased by 0.37 per
cent with respect to previous month compared to increase of 1.02 per cent recorded between
corresponding months a year ago.
The maximum upward pressure in current index came from Food & Beverages group
contributing 0.37 percentage points to the total change. At item level, Rice, Arhar Dal,
Buffalo milk, Dairy Milk, poultry chicken, Egg-Hen, Apple, Grapes, Brinjal, Garlic,
Ginger, Potato, Onion, Tomato, Sugar white, Cumin seed/Jira, Supari, Saree Cotton, Shirt
Cloth Cotton, Medicine Allopathic, Private tuition/Coaching Center Fees, etc. are
responsible for the rise in index. However, this increase was largely checked by Wheat Atta,
Lady's Finger, Lemon, Mango, Soyabean Oil, Sunflower Oil, Mustard Oil, Electricity
Domestic, Kerosene oil, etc. putting downward pressure on the index.
At centre level, Jabalpur recorded a maximum increase of 5.2 points followed by
Salem with 3.8 points. Among others, 2 centres recorded increase between 2 to 2.6 points,
14 centres between I to 1.9 points and34 centres between 0.1 to 0.9 points. On the contrary,
Ludhiana recorded a maximum decrease of I point. Among others, 26 centers recorded
decrease between 0.1 to 0.9 points. Rest of nine centers index remained stationary.
Year-on-year inflation for the month stood at 4.42 per cent compared to 5.09 per cent
for the previous month and 6.97 per cent during the corresponding month a year before.
Similarly, Food inflation stood at 3.24 per cent against 4.16 per cent of the previous month and7.92 per cent during the corresponding month a year ago.
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