Retail inflation for industrial workers eases to 6.16% in June
The Hindu
Labour Bureau 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
Retail inflation for industrial workers eased to 6.16% in June from 6.97% in May this year due to lower prices of certain food items and petrol.
“Year-on-year inflation for the month stood at 6.16% compared to 6.97% for the previous month [May 2022] and 5.57% during the corresponding month [June 2021] a year before,” a Labour Ministry statement said.
It said the food inflation stood at 6.73% in June against 7.92% in the previous month and 5.61% in June 2021.
The all-India CPI-IW (consumer price index for industrial workers) for June 2022 increased by 0.2 points and stood at 129.2 points. CPI-IW was 129 points in May 2022.
The maximum upward pressure in the current index came from Food & Beverages group contributing 0.20 percentage points to the total change.
Potato, onion, tomato, cabbage, apple, banana, coriander, chilli dry, fish fresh, poultry chicken, vada, idli dosa, cooked meal, cooking gas, kerosene oil, electricity domestic etc. were responsible for the rise in the index.
However, it said this increase was largely checked by petrol for vehicle, rice, mango, chilli green, lemon, lady finger, parwal, pineapple, soyabeen oil, sunflower oil etc, putting downward pressure on the index.