February 15, 2002

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CONSUMER PRICE INDEX FOR URBAN NON-MANUAL EMPLOYEES FOR JANUARY, 2002; BASE 1984-85=100

    The All India Consumer Price Index for Urban Non-Manual Employees (CPI(UNME)), on base 1984-85=100, for the month of January, 2002 has been released by the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO), Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation; together with the indices for 59 selected urban centres in India. The All India CPI (UNME) for January 2002 is 393, which is 1 point less than the index for the month of December, 2001. At the major group level, the index for January, 2002 has not shown any significant decrease when compared to the index for December,, 2001. The largest decrease at the major group level has been reported in the case of "Food, Beverages & Tobacco" which has decreased by 1.53%; however the index for "Housing" group has increased by 3.40%. At the sub-group level, the index for "Vegetables" has decreased by 14.32% followed by "Sugar, Honey etc". and "Condiments & Spices" which decreased by 1.64% and 1.42% respectively. With the corresponding All India index for January, 2001 being 376, the index for the month of January, 2002 has shown a rise of 4.5 percent over a year.

    The average index for the period April 2001 to January, 2002 works out to 390, which is higher by 5.4% over the average index of 370 for the corresponding period of the previous year. Statement-1 gives the CPI (UNME) for All-India, and 59 selected urban centres in the country, for January, 2002; together with the indices for the preceding five months. The CPI (UNME) for January, 2002 in respect of four metropolitan cities of India, together with the corresponding indices for the previous month and also for January, 2001 are given below:-

City

January 2001

December, 2001

January 2002

Kolkata

344

356

352

Chennai

433

466

471

Delhi

382

402

399

Mumbai

379

396

397

    Statement-2 gives a comparison of CPI (UNME) for January, 2002 in respect of 59 selected urban centres, with the indices for the corresponding month of last year, namely January, 2001. Percentage change in the index is shown in the last column. From the statement, it may be noted that the variation in the index for various centres ranges from – 3.2 to 8.9 percent; with the largest increase being in the case of Meerut and the least increase in the case of Srinagar. The increases has less than 0 for 1 centre, 0.1 to 2.0 percent for 4 centres, 2.1 to 4.0 percent for 19 centres, 4.1 to 6.0 percent for 21 centres, 6.1 to 8.0 percent for 10 centres and 8.1 to 10.0 percent for 4 centres. As many as 28 centres have lower annual percentage increase as compared to that of the All India figure of 4.5 percent and 28 centres have higher percentage increase as compared to the All-India figure whereas 3 centres have the same percentage increased as that the All-India figure.

Statement – 1

CONSUMER PRICE INDEX NUMBER FOR URBAN NON-MANUAL EMPLOYEES

Base 1984-85 = 100

Sl. No. Centre

2001

 2002
Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan
1. Hyderabad 413 410 414 413 411 412
2. Kurnool 403 406 409 411 408 413
3. Vijayawada 424 424 430 434 431 434
4. Visakhapatnam 399 400 403 406 406 404
5. Warangal 418 417 423 426 427 424
6. Guwahati 397 396 395 394 397 397
7. Patna 362 366 370 370 369 361
8. Muzaffarpur 377 376 379 388 383 379
9. Ranchi 366 367 366 367 368 363
10. Ahmedabad 356 352 351 352 352 348
11. Bhavnagar 398 395 393 396 394 391
12. Rajkot 367 358 358 359 356 356
13. Surat 353 351 352 352 347 344
14. Rohtak 437 433 438 431 427 424
15. Shimla 398 400 397 398 395 391
16. Srinagar 405 395 395 398 397 397
17. Jammu 403 404 398 398 392 390
18. Bangalore 414 413 413 416 415 415
19. Gulbarga 380 379 382 385 386 386
20. Hubli 398 400 399 402 403 400
21. Mangalore 387 383 384 387 387 389
22. Trivandrum 384 385 384 386 386 391
23. Calicut 371 370 371 374 374 375
24. Bhopal 374 371 374 377 375 377
25. Gwalior 419 414 414 421 417 416
26. Indore 383 383 387 389 386 386
27. Jabalpur 362 361 362 365 362 361
28. Mumbai 396 394 396 397 396 397
29. Aurangabad 422 422 423 423 425 430
30. Nagpur 378 376 379 379 376 375
31. Pune 406 406 407 406 404 405
32. Solarpur 370 369 371 374 373 371
33. Imphal 384 383 383 383 379 372
34. Shillong 406 406 407 408 410 410
35. Kohima 428 427 430 433 433 437
36. Cuttack 385 382 384 390 385 377
37. Sambalpur 345 343 342 343 342 340
38. Amritsar 334 337 333 335 330 329
39. Jaipur 391 390 390 390 391 390
40. Ajmer 424 417 419 423 420 423
41. Jodhpur 389 384 383 380 380 378
42. Gangtok 422 427 431 436 433 440
43. Chennai 454 454 458 462 466 471
44. Coimbatore 456 454 452 455 462 460
45. Madurai 439 438 439 448 448 447
46. Salem 427 426 428 434 434 434
47. Tiruchirapalli 410 407 411 418 421 426
48. Agartala 439 435 432 444 441 440
49. Lucknow 368 367 369 373 366 365
50. Agra 393 388 389 389 384 385
51. Allahabad 415 413 415 415 410 411
52. Kanpur 360 359 363 365 360 357
53. Meerut 351 348 347 347 345 354
54. Kolkata 357 355 358 359 356 352
55. Asansol 402 402 402 403 401 396
56. Kharagpur 378 378 383 382 382 374
57. Siliguri 417 418 420 424 420 421
58. Chandigarh 467 472 465 465 463 466
59. Delhi 402 401 402 405 402 399
  All India 393 392 393 395 394 393

Notes:-

  1. The index measures the average change in Consumer Prices over a period of time at each centre and as such this cannot be used for comparison of costliness among different centres.
  2. All-India CPI (UNME) on base 1984-85=100 may be converted to old base 1960=100 by multiplying it with the linking factor 5.32.

Statement – 2

CONSUMER PRICE INDEX NUMBER FOR URBAN NON-MANUAL EMPLOYEES

Base 1984-85 = 100

Sl. No. Centre January 2001 January 2002 Percent change
1. Hyderabad 387 412 6.5
2. Kurnool 382 413 8.1
3. Vijayawada 403 434 7.7
4. Visakhapatnam 382 404 5.8
5. Warangal 395 424 7.3
6. Guwahati 380 397 4.5
7. Patna 348 361 3.7
8. Muzaffarpur 362 379 4.7
9. Ranchi 356 363 2.0
10. Ahmedabad 342 348 1.8
11. Bhavnagar 372 391 5.1
12. Rajkot 343 356 3.8
13. Surat 341 344 0.9
14. Rohtak 414 424 2.4
15. Shimla 382 391 2.4
16. Srinagar 410 397 -3.2
17. Jammu 380 390 2.6
18. Bangalore 396 415 4.8
19. Gulbarga 358 386 7.8
20. Hubli 380 400 5.3
21. Mangalore 371 389 4.9
22. Trivandrum 371 391 5.4
23. Calicut 370 375 1.4
24. Bhopal 366 377 3.0
25. Gwalior 399 416 4.3
26. Indore 368 386 4.9
27. Jabalpur 344 361 4.9
28. Mumbai 379 397 4.7
29. Aurangabad 403 430 6.7
30. Nagpur 364 375 3.0
31. Pune 391 405 3.6
32. Solarpur 358 371 3.6
33. Imphal 360 372 3.3
34. Shillong 394 410 4.1
35. Kohima 417 437 4.8
36. Cuttack 365 377 3.3
37. Sambalpur 324 340 4.9
38. Amritsar 321 329 2.5
39. Jaipur 378 290 3.2
40. Ajmer 400 423 5.8
41. Jodhpur 365 378 3.6
42. Gangtok 409 440 7.6
43. Chennai 433 471 8.8
44. Coimbatore 441 460 4.3
45. Madurai 432 447 3.5
46. Salem 421 434 3.1
47. Tiruchirapalli 401 426 6.2
48. Agartala 411 440 7.1
49. Lucknow 344 365 6.1
50. Agra 356 385 8.1
51. Allahabad 384 411 7.0
52. Kanpur 337 357 5.9
53. Meerut 325 354 8.9
54. Kolkata 344 352 2.3
55. Asansol 379 396 4.5
56. Kharagpur 359 374 4.2
57. Siliguri 405 421 4.0
58. Chandigarh 448 466 4.0
59. Delhi 382 399 4.5
  All India 376 393 4.5