The Central Statistics Office (CSO),
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation releases Consumer Price
Indices (CPI) on base 2010=100 for all-India and States/UTs separately for
rural, urban and combined every month with effect from January, 2011.
Provisional indices for the month of April 2013 and also
final indices for March 2013 are being released with this note for all-India
and for States/UTs.
All India provisional General (all groups), Group and Sub- Group level
CPI numbers of April 2013 for rural, urban and combined are given in Annex I.
The General Indices for rural, urban and combined are 128.7, 127.4 and 128.1
respectively.
Provisional annual inflation rate based on all India
general CPI (Combined) for April 2013 on point to point basis (April 2013
over April 2012) is 9.39% as compared to 10.39% (final) for the previous
month of March 2013. The corresponding provisional inflation rates for rural
and urban areas for April 2013 are 9.16% and 9.73% respectively. Inflation
rates (final) for rural and urban areas for March 2013 are 10.41% and 10.38%
respectively. Inflation for specified categories is indicated at Annex II.
State/UT-wise
General provisional CPI numbers for
rural, urban and combined are at Annex III. State/ UT wise Group level
provisional indices are available in the Ministry’s website (www.mospi.gov.in).
Price
data are collected from selected towns by the Field Operations Division of NSSO
and from selected villages by the Department of Posts. Price data are received through web portals being maintained by the
National Informatics Centre.
