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New Delhi: India’s retail inflation for January, which is scheduled to be announced later in the day, might have accelerated to six per cent, the upper tolerance limit of the central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das said on Monday. “Today’s inflation print is expected to be close to six per […]

Besides, inflation projection for 2021-22 is retained at 5.3 per cent, with Q4FY22 at 5.7 per cent on account of unfavourable base effects that are expected to ease subsequently.

In the previous Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting in June, the RBI's CPI inflation projection for the current fiscal stood at 5.1 per cent.

Food inflation stood at 5.26 per cent last month against 4.78 per cent in April 2021 and 5.88 per cent in the corresponding month a year ago.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI)-based inflation hit a six-month high of 6.3 per cent in May, from 4.3 per cent in April.

As per the data released by the National Statistical Office (NSO), inflation in the food basket was 5.01 per cent in May, significantly up from 1.96 per cent in the preceding month.

The maximum upward pressure in current index came from 'fuel and light' group contributing 0.40 percentage points to the total change, it said.

Mainly due to higher prices of certain food items.

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has kept the key repo rate unchanged at 4 per cent to support growth in the current situation.

High prices of fuel and certain food items pushed index to 4.48% in February

Higher fuel prices will keep upward pressure on retail inflation and keep the RBI from offering further rate cuts, said Moody's Analytics...

Inflation based on food index of CPI-AL and CPI-RL is at 1.55 per cent and 1.85 per cent respectively in February 2021, a labour ministry statement said.

According to the brokerage, despite March 2021 inflation tracking 5.5 per cent+, the RBI's Q4FY21 forecast could see a 25-30bps cut.

The numbers in December 2020 had stood at 2.35 per cent and 3.34 per cent, respectively

Point to point rate of inflation based on the CPI-AL and CPI-RL decreased to 3.25 per cent and 3.34 per cent in December 2020 from 6 per cent and 5.86 per cent respectively

According to the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) data, manufacturing sector output shrank by 1.7 per cent in November 2020.

It said that the food inflation stood at 7.48 per cent in November as against 8.21 per cent in the previous month.

Point-to-point rate of inflation based on CPI-AL and CPI-RL decreased to 6.25% and 6.10% in September from 6.32% and 6.28%

The decline in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) was 10.8 per cent in July. The contraction in August stood at 8 per cent, as per the latest data.