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Consumer Price Index

The Inflation rates for the final consumers have zoomed in the last few months as their basket of commodities is mainly made up of primary articles where the price rise has been the steepest due to a bad agricultural production world-wide.

  Dec-05 Jan-06 Feb-06 Mar-06 Apr-06 May-06 Jun-06 Jul-06 Aug-06 Sep-06 Oct-06 Nov-06
Industrial Workers - GI* 118.8 119 119 119 120 121 123 124 124 125 127 127
(2001=100) 5.6 4.7 4.9 4.9 5.0 6.3 7.7 6.7 6.3 6.8 7.3 6.3
Agricultural/Rural Labourers 358 357 357 358 360 365 370 372 375 380 386 390
(1986-87=100) 4.7 4.7 7.2 5.3 5.6 6.4 7.2 6.3 6.5 7.3 8.4 8.3
Urban Non Manual Employees - GI* 461 462 461 463 465 471 477 481 484 488 493 494
(1984-85=100) 5.7 5.0 4.8 5.0 5.0 5.8 6.5 5.7 6.1 6.6 7.2 6.7

* GI = General Index