INFLATION RATE
FALLS BUT CONSUMER PRICE INDEX FOR INDUSTRIAL WORKERS RISES
The
Rise/ Fall in index varied from centre to centre during October
2002. In 43 centres, the index increased between 1 to 16 points
and in 5 centres it remained constant whereas in another 22 centres
it recorded a decrease of 1 to 9 points when compared to the previous
month. The CPI-IW in 70 Ciites/ Towns across the country during
Sept & October 2002, has been as follows :
State |
Sr. |
Centre |
Month |
|
State |
Sr. |
Centre |
Month |
|
No. |
Sept.'
2002 |
Oct.'
2002 |
|
|
No. |
|
Sept.'
2002 |
Oct.'
2002 |
Andhra |
1 |
Gudur |
458 |
463 |
|
Maharastra |
38 |
Mumbai |
563 |
563 |
Pradesh |
2 |
Guntur |
481 |
484 |
|
|
39 |
Nagpur |
499 |
500 |
|
3 |
Hyderabad |
471 |
476 |
|
|
40 |
Nasik |
518 |
518 |
|
4 |
Visakhapatnam |
473 |
475 |
|
|
41 |
Pune |
532 |
534 |
|
5 |
Warangal |
506 |
514 |
|
|
42 |
Solapur |
499 |
497 |
Assam |
6 |
D.D.Tinsukia |
403 |
409 |
|
Orissa |
43 |
Barbil |
439 |
434 |
|
7 |
Guwahati |
482 |
492 |
|
|
44 |
Rourkela |
420 |
424 |
|
8 |
Labac-Silchar |
381 |
383 |
|
Punjab |
45 |
Amritsar |
429 |
428 |
|
9 |
Mariani-Jorhat |
417 |
425 |
|
|
46 |
Ludhiana |
442 |
445 |
|
10 |
Rangapara-Tezpur |
421 |
436 |
|
Rajasthan |
47 |
Ajmer |
478 |
478 |
Bihar |
11 |
Monghyr |
449 |
456 |
|
|
48 |
Jaipur |
454 |
452 |
Chhattisgarh |
12 |
Bhillai |
426 |
431 |
|
Tamil
Nadu |
49 |
Chennai |
523 |
526 |
Gujarat |
13 |
Ahmedabad |
482 |
481 |
|
|
50 |
Coimbatore |
481 |
479 |
|
14 |
Bhavnagar |
498 |
497 |
|
|
51 |
Coonoor |
478 |
488 |
|
15 |
Rajkot |
455 |
453 |
|
|
52 |
Madurai |
464 |
470 |
|
16 |
Surat |
491 |
493 |
|
|
53 |
Salem |
464 |
472 |
|
17 |
Vadodra |
472 |
473 |
|
|
54 |
Tiruchirapally |
548 |
550 |
Haryana |
18 |
Faridabad |
492 |
491 |
|
Uttar |
55 |
Agra |
447 |
444 |
|
19 |
Yamunanagar |
459 |
456 |
|
Pradesh |
56 |
Ghaziabad |
489 |
483 |
J
& K |
20 |
Srinagar |
550 |
546 |
|
|
57 |
Kanpur |
471 |
467 |
Jharkhand |
21 |
Jamshedpur |
443 |
445 |
|
|
58 |
Saharanpur |
439 |
446 |
|
22 |
Jharia |
378 |
388 |
|
|
59 |
Varanasi |
499 |
498 |
|
23 |
Kodarma |
399 |
399 |
|
West |
60 |
Asansol |
463 |
465 |
|
24 |
Noamundi |
415 |
417 |
|
Bengal |
61 |
Darjeeling |
420 |
411 |
|
25 |
Ranchi-Hatia |
440 |
445 |
|
|
62 |
Durgapur |
567 |
571 |
Karnataka |
26 |
Bangalore |
458 |
457 |
|
|
63 |
Haldia |
590 |
592 |
|
27 |
Belgaum |
524 |
523 |
|
|
64 |
Howrah |
550 |
554 |
|
28 |
Hubli-Dharwar |
480 |
481 |
|
|
65 |
Jalpaiguri |
427 |
429 |
|
29 |
Mercara |
463 |
459 |
|
|
66 |
Kolkata |
538 |
543 |
Kerala |
30 |
Alwaye |
483 |
486 |
|
|
67 |
Raniganj |
425 |
424 |
|
31 |
Mundakayam |
486 |
482 |
|
Chandigarh |
68 |
Chandigarh |
525 |
522 |
|
32 |
Quilon |
498 |
501 |
|
Delhi |
69 |
Delhi |
562 |
563 |
|
33 |
Thiruvananthapuram |
544 |
545 |
|
Pondicherry |
70 |
Pondicherry |
516 |
521 |
Madhya |
34 |
Balaghat |
432 |
445 |
|
|
|
ALL-INDIA
|
485 |
487 |
Pradesh |
35 |
Bhopal |
516 |
517 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
36 |
Indore |
491 |
491 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
37 |
Jabalpur |
472 |
488 |
|
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