Due to the nationwide lockdown imposed since March 25, truncated WPI inflation data for April, with figures of food, primary articles and fuel and power was released.

Due to the across the country lockdown enforced since March 25, truncated WPI inflation information for April, with figures of food, primary articles and fuel and power was launched.|Image Credit:
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13%, as against 2.55%in April.

Wholesale rates in the country experienced a deflation of 3.21%in May due to sharp decrease in costs of fuel and power, even as food posts turned pricey.

” The yearly rate of inflation, based on monthly Wholesale Price Index (WPI), stood at (-) 3.21%( provisional) for May 2020 as compared to 2.79%throughout the corresponding month of the previous year,” the commerce and industry Ministry stated in a state