Retail inflation for industrial workers eases to 6.16% in June
New Delhi:
Retail inflation for industrial workers declined to 6.16 per cent in June this year from 6.97 per cent in May this year due to reduction in prices of certain food items and petrol.
“The year-on-year inflation for the month stood at 6.16 per cent as compared to 6.97 per cent in the previous month (May 2022) and 5.57 per cent during the same month (June 2021),” a labor ministry statement said. ,
It said food inflation stood at 6.73 per cent in June, up from 7.92 per cent in the previous month and 5.61 per cent in June 2021.
The All India CPI-IW (Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers) for June 2022 rose 0.2 points to 129.2 points. The CPI-IW in May 2022 was 129 points.
The maximum upward pressure in the current index came from the food and beverage group, which contributed 0.20 percentage points to the total change.
Potato, Onion, Tomato, Cabbage, Apple, Banana, Coriander, Dry Chilli, Fish Fresh, Poultry Chicken, Vada, Idli Dosa, Cooked Food, LPG, Kerosene, Electricity Household etc. were responsible for the rise in the index. .
However, it said this increase was largely controlled for petrol, rice, mango, green chillies, lemon, okra, parwal, pineapple, soybean oil, sunflower oil etc., which put pressure on the index.
The index is compiled for 88 centers and all India and is released on the last working day of the following month.
Puducherry center recorded the highest growth of 2.6 points, followed by Amritsar and Tripura with 2.2 points and 2 points respectively.
A total of 15 centers registered an increase between 1-1.9 points and 33 between 0.1 and 0.9 points. In contrast, Sangrur recorded the maximum decline of 2.4 points.
Five centers recorded a decline of 1-1.9 points and 25 by 0.1-0.9 points. The indices of the remaining six centers remained stable.
The Labor Bureau, an attached office of the Ministry of Labor and Employment, is compiling the CPI-IW every month on the basis of retail prices collected from 317 markets spread over 88 industrial centers in the country.