January 16, 2002

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CONSUMER PRICE INDEX FOR URBAN NON-MANUAL EMPLOYEES FOR DECEMBER 2001: 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 December, 2001 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 December 2001 is 394, which is 1 point less than the index for the month of November, 2001. At the major group level, the index for December, 2001 has not shown any significant decrease when compared to the index for November, 2001. The largest decrease at the major group level has been reported in the case of "Food, Beverages & Tobacco" which has decreased by 1.50%; however the index for "Fuel & Light" group has increased by 0.95%.. At the sub-group level, the index for "Vegetables" has decreased by 14.14% and that for "Pulses" decreased by 1.59% whereas the index for "Condiments & Spices" increased by 1.86%. With the corresponding All India index for December, 2000 being 375, the index for the month of December, 2001 has shown a rise of 5.1 percent over a year.

    The average index for the period April 2001 to December, 2001 works out to 389, which is higher by 5.1% 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 December, 2001; together with the indices for the preceding five months. The CPI (UNME) for December, 2001 in respect of four metropolitan cities of India, together with the corresponding indices for the previous month and also for December, 2000 are given below:-

City

December, 2000

November, 2001

December, 2001

Kolkata

345

359

356

Chennai

424

462

466

Delhi

382

405

402

Mumbai

378

397

396

Statement-2 gives a comparison of CPI (UNME) for December, 2001 in respect of 59 selected urban centres, with the indices for the corresponding month of last year, namely December, 2000. 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 - 2.5 to 9.9 percent; with the largest increase being in the case of Chennai and the least increase in the case of Srinagar. The increases are less than 0 for 1 centre, 0.1 to 2.0 percent for 1centre, 2.1 to 4.0 percent for 14 centres, 4.1 to 6.0 percent for 21 centres, 6.1 to 8.0 percent for 21 centres and more than 8.1 percent for 1 centre.. As many as 28 centres have lower annual percentage increase as compared to that of the All India figure of 5.1 percent and 31 centres have higher percentage increase as compared to the All-India figure.

Statement – 1

CONSUMER PRICE INDEX NUMBER FOR URBAN NON-MANUAL EMPLOYEES

Base 1984-85 = 100

 

Sl. No. Centre

2001
July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
1. Hyderabad 412 413 410 414 413 411
2. Kurnool 400 403 406 409 411 408
3. Vijayawada 418 424 424 430 434 431
4. Visakhapatnam 396 399 400 403 406 406
5. Warangal 415 418 417 423 426 427
6. Guwahati 396 397 396 395 394 397
7. Patna 354 362 366 370 370 369
8. Muzaffarpur 369 377 376 379 388 383
9. Ranchi 361 366 367 366 367 368
10. Ahmedabad 355 356 352 351 352 352
11. Bhavnagar 398 398 395 393 396 394
12. Rajkot 359 367 358 358 359 356
13. Surat 350 353 351 352 352 347
14. Rohtak 435 437 433 438 431 427
15. Shimla 395 398 400 397 398 395
16. Srinagar 413 405 395 395 398 397
17. Jammu 398 403 404 398 398 392
18. Bangalore 413 414 413 413 416 415
19. Gulbarga 376 380 379 382 385 386
20. Hubli 394 398 400 399 402 403
21. Mangalore 382 387 383 384 387 387
22. Trivandrum 382 384 385 384 386 386
23. Calicut 375 371 370 371 374 374
24. Bhopal 375 374 371 374 377 375
25. Gwalior 421 419 414 414 421 417
26. Indore 383 383 383 387 389 386
27. Jabalpur 361 362 361 362 365 362
28. Mumbai 396 396 394 396 397 396
29. Aurangabad 413 422 422 423 423 425
30. Nagpur 377 378 376 379 379 376
31. Pune 406 406 406 407 406 404
32. Solarpur 367 370 369 371 374 373
33. Imphal 365 384 383 383 383 379
34. Shillong 406 406 406 407 408 410
35. Kohima 427 428 427 430 433 433
36. Cuttack 383 385 382 384 390 385
37. Sambalpur 338 345 343 342 343 342
38. Amritsar 329 334 337 333 335 330
39. Jaipur 386 391 390 390 390 391
40. Ajmer 419 424 417 419 423 420
41. Jodhpur 381 389 384 383 380 380
42. Gangtok 421 422 427 431 436 433
43. Chennai 453 454 454 458 462 466
44. Coimbatore 451 456 454 452 455 462
45. Madurai 438 439 438 439 448 448
46. Salem 428 427 426 428 434 434
47. Tiruchirapalli 409 410 407 411 418 421
48. Agartala 441 439 435 432 444 441
49. Lucknow 368 368 367 369 373 366
50. Agra 384 393 388 389 389 384
51. Allahabad 414 415 413 415 415 410
52. Kanpur 358 360 359 363 365 360
53. Meerut 349 351 348 347 347 345
54. Kolkata 360 357 355 358 359 356
55. Asansol 407 402 402 402 403 401
56. Kharagpur 375 378 378 383 382 382
57. Siliguri 416 417 418 420 424 420
58. Chandigarh 463 467 472 465 465 463
59. Delhi 399 402 401 402 405 402
  All India 391 393 392 393 395 394

Statement – 2

CONSUMER PRICE INDEX NUMBER FOR URBAN NON-MANUAL EMPLOYEES

Base 1984-85 = 100

 

Sl. No. Centre December 2000 December 2001 Percent change
1. Hyderabad 386 411 6.5
2. Kurnool 383 408 6.5
3. Vijayawada 405 431 6.4
4. Visakhapatnam 379 406 7.1
5. Warangal 400 427 6.8
6. Guwahati 378 397 5.0
7. Patna 348 369 6.0
8. Muzaffarpur 360 383 6.4
9. Ranchi 353 368 4.2
10. Ahmedabad 341 352 3.2
11. Bhavnagar 374 394 5.3
12. Rajkot 347 356 2.6
13. Surat 340 347 2.1
14. Rohtak 412 427 3.6
15. Shimla 379 395 4.2
16. Srinagar 407 379 -2.5
17. Jammu 377 392 4.0
18. Bangalore 393 415 5.6
19. Gulbarga 360 386 7.2
20. Hubli 373 403 8.0
21. Mangalore 368 387 5.2
22. Trivandrum 366 386 5.5
23. Calicut 370 374 1.1
24. Bhopal 365 375 2.7
25. Gwalior 392 417 6.4
26. Indore 368 386 4.9
27. Jabalpur 343 362 5.5
28. Mumbai 378 396 4.8
29. Aurangabad 399 425 6.5
30. Nagpur 363 376 3.6
31. Pune 389 404 3.9
32. Solarpur 361 373 3.3
33. Imphal 354 379 7.1
34. Shillong 386 410 6.2
35. Kohima 415 433 4.3
36. Cuttack 368 385 4.6
37. Sambalpur 320 342 6.9
38. Amritsar 321 330 2.8
39. Jaipur 373 391 4.8
40. Ajmer 394 420 6.6
41. Jodhpur 365 380 4.1
42. Gangtok 409 433 5.9
43. Chennai 424 466 9.9
44. Coimbatore 434 462 6.5
45. Madurai 432 448 3.7
46. Salem 416 434 4.3
47. Tiruchirapalli 403 421 4.5
48. Agartala 417 441 5.8
49. Lucknow 342 366 7.0
50. Agra 356 384 7.9
51. Allahabad 382 410 7.3
52. Kanpur 338 360 6.5
53. Meerut 322 345 7.1
54. Kolkata 345 356 3.2
55. Asansol 382 401 5.0
56. Kharagpur 360 382 6.1
57. Siliguri 404 420 4.0
58. Chandigarh 447 463 3.6
59. Delhi 382 402 5.2
  All India 375 394 5.1