Retail inflation at 2.75% in Jan under new CPI series

New Delhi, Retail inflation stood at 2.75 per cent in January under the new series of All India Client Worth Index (CPI), with 2024 as the bottom 12 months, launched on Thursday.

The new series launched by the Nationwide Statistics Workplace (NSO) under the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation has elevated the variety of items from 259 to 308 and companies from 40 to 50 to offer a greater image of the worth state of affairs.

The meals inflation for January has labored out to be 2.13 per cent.

The important thing enhancements in the new series embrace rural home hire, on-line media companies and fuels (CNG/PNG).

For improved protection of information accessible on digital and administrative sources, together with phone expenses, rail fare, air fare, gasoline, postal expenses and on-line media and streaming companies (OTT subscriptions), too have been factored into the new series.

The retail inflation, under the previous series with base 12 months 2012, was 4.26 per cent in January 2025 and 1.33 per cent in December. PTI

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