29th August, 2002
Ministry of Labour & Empowerment  


INFLATION RATE FALLS BUT CONSUMER PRICE INDEX FOR INDUSTRIAL WORKERS RISES


While the All India Consumer Price Index Number for Industrial Workers (base 1982 = 100) went up by 5 points to stand at 481 during July 2002, Jamshedpur witnessed maximum increase of 14 points but in Nagpur the index went down by 6 points. The CPI-IW in 70 Ciites/ Towns across the country during June & July 2002, has been as follows :

State

Sr. No.

Centre

Month

Month

State

Sr. No.

Centre

Month

Month

     

June 2002

July

2002

     

June 2002

July

2002

Andhra Pradesh

1.

Gudur

453

457

 

39.

Nagpur

499

493

 

2.

Guntur

468

480

 

40

Nasik

511

514

 

3.

Hyderabad

469

468

 

41.

Pune

531

532

 

4.

Visakhapatnam

468

470

 

42.

Solapur

484

486

 

5.

Warangal

496

503

Orissa

43.

Barbil

430

434

Assam

6.

D.D.Tinsukia

395

398

 

44.

Rourkela

416

418

 

7.

Guwahati

478

481

Punjab

45.

Amritsar

418

422

 

8.

Labac-Silchar

374

375

 

46.

Ludhiana

431

435

 

9.

Marian-Jorhat

402

409

Rajasthan

47.

Ajmer

471

478

 

10.

Rangapara-Tezpur

409

413

 

48.

Jaipur

435

441

Bihar

11.

Monghyr

420

422

Tamil Nadu

49.

Chennai

512

515

Chhatisgarh

12

Bhillai

408

416

 

50.

Coimbatore

480

477

Gujarat

13.

Ahmedabad

479

482

 

51.

Coonoor

474

477

 

14.

Bhavnagar

498

508

 

52.

Madurai

458

457

 

15.

Rajkot

446

457

 

53.

Salem

470

470

 

16.

Surat

487

490

 

54.

Tiruchirapally

522

530

 

17.

Vadodra

474

476

Uttar Pradesh

55.

Agra

434

442

Haryana

18.

Faridabad

480

487

 

56.

Ghaziabad

478

483

 

19.

Yamunanagar

441

452

 

57.

Kanpur

461

465

J&K

20.

Srinagar

542

547

 

58.

Saharanpur

434

436

Jharkhand

21.

Jamshedpur

425

439

 

59.

Varanasi

482

491

 

22.

Jharia

373

376

West Bengal

60.

Asansol

452

459

 

23.

Kodarma

386

388

 

61.

Darjeeling

390

393

 

24.

Noamundi

401

406

 

62.

Durgapur

552

558

 

25.

Ranchi-Hatia

428

437

 

63.

Haldia

579

584

Karnataka

26.

Bangalore

450

455

 

64.

Howrah

542

545

 

27.

Belgaum

511

519

 

65.

Jalpaiguri

416

421

 

28.

Hubli-Dharwar

469

477

 

66.

Kolkata

528

537

 

29.

Mercara

461

462

 

67.

Raniganj

410

419

Kerala

30.

Alwaye

479

489

Chandigarh

68.

Chandigarh

509

514

 

31.

Mundakayam

464

476

Delhi

69.

Delhi

555

561

 

32.

Quilon

496

504

Pondicherry

70.

Pondicherry

505

516

 

33.

Thiruvananthapauram

546

557

   

ALL INDIA

476

481

Madhya Pradesh

34.

Balaghat

417

428

         
 

35.

Bhopal

512

512

         
 

36.

Indore

492

496

         
 

37.

Jabalpur

462

468

         

Maharashtra

38.

Mumbai

558

560