Retail inflation at 2.75% in January under new Consumer Price Index series
The food inflation for January has worked out to be 2.13 per cent
Retail inflation stood at 2.75 per cent in January under the new series of All India Consumer Price Index (CPI), with 2024 as the base year, released on Thursday.
The new series released by the National Statistics Office (NSO) under the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation has increased the number of goods from 259 to 308 and services from 40 to 50 to provide a better picture of the price situation.
The food inflation for January has worked out to be 2.13 per cent, and housing at 2.05 per cent.
The retail inflation, under the old series with base year 2012, was 4.26 per cent in January 2025 and 1.33 per cent in December.
Headline inflation in rural areas during January was 2.73 per cent and in urban India 2.77 per cent, according to NSO data.
According to the new CPI series, Telangana had the highest inflation at 4.92 per cent, followed by Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
According to the data, the top five items with low inflation in January were garlic, onion, potato, arhar, tur dal, and peas.
On the other hand, high inflation was in silver jewellery, tomato, coconut-copra, gold, diamond, platinum jewellery, and coconut oil.
At the all-India level, NSO said, the number of weighted items has increased from 299 to 358 in CPI 2024, goods items increased from 259 to 308, and services items increased from 40 to 50.
The new additions in the 2024 series are rural housing, online media service providers/streaming services, value-added dairy products, barley and its products, pen-drive and external hard disk, attendant, babysitter, and exercise equipment.
