The rise in index varied from state to state. In case of agricultural labourers, it recorded an increase of 1 to 10 points in 19 States while it remained stationary for Jammu & Kashmir. Tamil Nadu with 1299 points topped the index table whereas Himachal Pradesh with 884 points stood at the bottom.
New Delhi: The All-India consumer price index number for agricultural and rural labourers for the month of June, 2022 increased by six points each to stand at 1125 and 1137 points respectively. The major contribution towards the rise in general index of agricultural and rural labourers came from food group to the extent of 3.69 and 3.79 points respectively mainly due to increase in prices of rice, wheat-atta, jowar, maize, milk, meat-goat, fish fresh, poultry, chillies dry, mixed spices, vegetables and fruits, etc.
The rise in index varied from state to state. In case of agricultural labourers, it recorded an increase of 1 to 10 points in 19 States while it remained stationary for Jammu & Kashmir. Tamil Nadu with 1299 points topped the index table whereas Himachal Pradesh with 884 points stood at the bottom. Notably, The consumer price index (CPI) measures changes over time in the general level of prices of goods and services that a reference population acquires, uses or pays for consumption.
In case of rural labourers, it recorded an increase of 1 to 10 points in 20 States. Tamil Nadu with 1289 points topped the index table whereas Himachal Pradesh with 935 points stood at the bottom.
Amongst states, the maximum increase in the consumer price index numbers for agricultural labourers was experienced by Kerala and for rural labourers, it was experienced by Madhya Pradesh (10 points each) mainly due to rise in the prices of jowar, topioca, fish fresh, chillies dry, vegetables and fruits, plastic shoes, etc.
Point to point rate of inflation based on the CPI-AL and CPI-RL stood at 6.43 per cent and 6.76 per cent in June compared to 6.67 per cent and 7 per cent respectively in May and 3.83 per cent and 4 per cent respectively during the corresponding month of the previous year. Similarly, Food inflation stood at 5.09 per cent and 5.16 per cent in June compared to 5.44 per cent and 5.51 per cent respectively in May and 2.67 per cent and 2.86 per cent respectively during the corresponding month of the previous year.
