Weekly SPI up by 0.46%

Weekly Sensitive Price Indicator up by 0.46% from last week (12-10-17). Whereas, year-on-year change was +2.21% during the year.

The weekly SPI is computed with base year of 2007-08=100 covers from 17 urban centers and 53 essential items for all income groups/quintiles. 

Of the items covered, average prices of 14 items registered an increase whereas average prices of the 9 items registered a decrease.

Onions and Tomatoes witnessed a price increase of Rs. 5.53 and Rs. 4.55 respectively.

However, average prices of some 30 items remained unchanged.