The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) based inflation has been in the double-digit for 14 months in a row. The WPI-based inflation stood at 15.08 per cent in April and 14.55 per cent in the previous month.
Although on a decline, the high rate of inflation in January is primarily due to rise in prices of mineral oils, crude petroleum & natural gas, basic metals, chemicals and chemical products, food articles.
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