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Industrial Growth Dips & Retail Inflation Rises

  • 13 Jul 2018
  • 2 min read

India’s industrial growth slowed to a seven-month low in May while consumer inflation breached the central bank’s forecast for the first half of the fiscal year, marking twin setbacks for an economy.

  • Both the slowdown in industrial output growth and jump in price pressure add to the worries of policymakers who are already concerned about sticky global oil prices.
  • Retail inflation, based on Consumer Price Index (CPI), rose to 5 percent in June, a five-month high, despite easing food prices.

Consumer Price Index (CPI)

  • CPI (Rural/Urban/Combined) is compiled by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) in the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.
  • CPI for Industrial Workers (IW) and CPI for Agricultural Labourers (AL) / Rural Labourers (RL) are compiled and released by the Labour Bureau in the Ministry of Labour and Employment.
  • It is based on the retail prices of products and measures inflation from the consumer side. RBI uses CPI (combined) to monitor inflation.
  • It covers only the consumer goods and consumer services.
  • Base Year: 2012
  • The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) slipped to 3.2% in May 2018 mainly due to sluggish performance of manufacturing and power sectors coupled with poor off-take of fast moving consumer goods (FMCG).

Index of Industrial Production (IIP)

  • IIP is an index which details out the growth of various sectors.
  • All India IIP is a composite indicator that measures the short-term changes in the volume of production of a basket of industrial products during a given period with respect to that in a chosen base period.
  • It is compiled and published monthly by the Central Statistical Organization (CSO) six weeks after the reference month ends.
  • Base Year: 2011-12
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