New
Delhi: The annual wholesale price index-based inflation
has continued to rise and touched 6.73 per cent for the
week ended 3 February, up from the previous week's 6.58
per cent mainly due to a rise in prices of pulses, cereals
and vegetables within Primary Articles, apart from manufactured
products including cement, steel and machinery items.
The
Primary Articles group shot up 12.26 per cent year-on-year,
with both the food and non-food article prices surging
over 12 per cent each during the latest reported week.
Wheat
prices shot up over 11 per cent, rice prices about five
per cent and prices of pulses over 23 per cent. Fruits
and vegetable prices were up 19 per cent, with prices
of onions up 82 per cent. The heavyweight manufactured
products group was up 6.37 per cent, with metals and metal
product prices shooting up nearly 17 per cent.
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