Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates-April 2006
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CPI and Inflation Rates
April
2006
Overview
consumer Price Index (CPI) declined by 1.0 per cent from 212.8 points in March 2006 to 210.7 points in April 2006. Month-on-month overall inflation rate decreased from 19.1 per cent in March 2006 to 14.9 per cent in April 2006. On the other hand, monthon-month underlying inflation rate which excludes food items from the CPI basket also declined from 5.3 per cent to 5.0 per cent.