The base year of All-India WPI has been revised from 2004-05 to 2011-12 by the Office of Economic Advisor (OEA), Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
Background
The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) series in India has undergone six revisions in 1952-53, 1961-62, 1970-71,1981-82, 1993-94 and 2004-05 so far. The current series is the seventh revision.
The revision entails shifting thebase year to 2011-12 from 2004-05, changing the basket of commodities and assigning new weights to the commodities.
Key
Highlights
- In the revised series, WPI will continue to constitute three Major Groups namely Primary Articles, Fuel & Power and Manufactured Products.
- Updated item basket and weighting structure conforming to the structure of economy in 2011-12.Increase in number of items from 676 to 697. In all 199 new items have been added and 146 old items have been dropped.
- In the new series of WPI, prices used for compilation do not include indirect taxes in order to remove impact of fiscal policy. This is in consonance with international practices and will make the new WPI conceptually closer to ‘Producer Price Index’.
- A new “WPI Food Index” will be compiled to capture the rate of inflation in food items. This is being compiled combining the “Food Articles” under “Primary Articles” and “Food Products" under “Manufactured Products”. Together with the Consumer Food Price Index released by Central Statistics Office, this would help monitor the price situation of food items better.
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