Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates-March 2009

The CPI increased by 3.6 percent from 333.21 points in February 2009 to 345.33 points in March 2009. Month-on-month overall inflation rate
increased from 25.1 percent in February 2009 to 25.8 percent in March 2009. On the other hand, the month on month underlying inflation rate
which excludes food items from the CPI basket increased from 7.9 percent in February to 7.7 percent in March 2009.