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 December 2013 and also final indices for November 2013 are being released hereby for all-India and for States/UTs.
All India provisional General (all groups), Group and Sub- Group level CPI numbers for December 2013 for rural, urban and combined are given in Annex I. The General Indices for rural, urban and combined are 140.1, 135.3 and 138.0, respectively.
Provisional annual inflation rate based on all India general CPI (Combined) for December 2013 on point to point basis (December 2013 over December 2012) is 9.87% as compared to 11.16% (final) for the previous month of November 2013.
The corresponding provisional inflation rates for rural and urban areas for December 2013 are 10.49% and 9.11% respectively. Inflation rates (final) for rural and urban areas for November 2013 are 11.66% and 10.53% 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 byreceived through web portals being maintained by the National Informatics Centre.
