Inflation at 11.98.% vs 11.89%

Inflation for the week ended July 19 increased marginally to 11.98 per cent. The non-food articles have gone down marginally. Primary articles were up 0.1% while food articles were also up 0.6%. Fuel ,power ,light remained unchanged.

While the details for this week’s indices are still trickling in, vegetables, non-ferrous metals, electrical gadgets, glass and earthenware showed a dip in their prices during the week ended July 12 as against the corresponding period previous year. Pulses, egg, meat, fish and man-made cloth also stood more or less at the same level where they were a year ago.

This has helped the annual inflation number stabilize at the present levels which still remain high with the annual inflation numbers summing up to about 12 per cent.